From NEWSMAX:
Susan Herman, president of the ACLU and author of “Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy”, told Newsmax the 10-year-old Patriot Act could be considered a “dragnet.”…
“The surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act make it so easy for the government to know everything about what we’re doing, and so difficult for us to know what the government is doing,” she said, adding that the government’s right to immediately seize the assets of organizations with suspected ties to terrorist groups is unfair…
“It seems to me that if the Constitution means anything, it means that the president cannot just designate an American citizen to be a terrorist and then execute that citizen without any oversight, without any process, without our knowing what the standards are,” she said. “I think our history shows that once people start dispensing with due process…we make mistakes, there’s terrible injustices, and, at some point…somebody who is not a terrorist is going to be executed.”
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EDITOR: Apropos Gil Smart’s Sunday News article “OWS, meet the Tea Party”, conservative NewsMax publishing the above as its lead article suggests that the Right Wing of the Republican Party and Occupy Wall Street may be finding common themes. Is America waking up?
