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It was a classic bait and switch: agree to abide by the Constitution in one respect and then create a new constitutional violation. That is what recently happened in our case involving inmates’ access to abortion care in Maricopa County, home of "America’s Toughest Sheriff," Joseph Arapio...
Thia at 4:12pm July 2
I've lived in AZ for almost 25 years. I personally could never live in Maricopa County. The politics of almost every state, city, county, and federal government in this country are dominated by corruption, nepotism and cronyism. That is politics. Transient or not, the voters are responsible for that. I personally feel that if you do not take ... Read Morethe time to read about the people and issues you are voting on, don't vote. Uneducated voting is almost as bad as party-line voting without tracking what your party is up to. In my opinion.
Chris at 9:20am July 4
he ACLU is almost right...criminals should never be allowed to breed or keep their children. Abort them or put them up for adoption.
We have learned that the Department of Justice will not be seeking an appeal in transgender veteran Diane Schroer’s victory against the Library of Congress. This is, of course, great news...
Audrey at 10:46am July 3
Brady -- No, your tax dollars probably did not pay for any operations, except obliquely in that part of her award for back pay, etc. probably will go toward treatments. Most insurance, even government health insurance, does not cover ANY treatment for gender identity disorder (including everything from counseling and hormone therapy to the so-... Read Morecalled "sex change" surgeries). For most transsexual people, all costs of treatment come directly out-of-pocket. These costs are not even tax-deductible, as almost any other medical treatment is.
If anyone has better news on that score for our friend Diane, I'd love to hear it.
If anyone has better news on that score for our friend Diane, I'd love to hear it.
Chris at 9:28am July 4
I was wondering? If she were to start dating real men would she be forced by law to inform the man that she is really a man? I would be highly enraged to say the least to find out my girlfriend or wife were really a man.
Specifically, when can someone else, who sues your doctor, obtain your records? According to the decision the Ohio Supreme Court issued today (PDF) in Roe v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region only under specific and limited circumstances...
Luana at 9:18pm July 1
Our records have been outsourced and are floating down the Ganges since long ago. But when we need medical records, we can't get them. "They" know more about us than we know about ourselves.
Jean at 7:20am July 2
ummmm.... HIPAA is a pain in the ass, but I've been able to get my records without issue.
Last Friday Vice President Biden announced the appointment of Lynn Rosenthal as the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, the first time such a position has existed...
Thia at 4:19pm July 2
Not all crime is hate crime. How short sighted of you to think that if something is not done out of love, then it must have been done out of hate. That's extremely flawed logic on your part. So, by your logic, if someone driving down the road tosses a cup out the window and commits the crime of littering, he/she must be full of hate? Try again... Read More. That person is full of disregard and disrespect, but not hate. And, as Stephen points out above, most crimes which have victims are committed out of greed, disrespect and desire to control/overpower the victim. When a victim is not "known" to the attacker, (therefore no personal relationship, crime of passion issues), and is chosen specifically due to their percieved membership is a particular demographic group, then it is a hate crime. Remember, that white is a race, ad hate crimes can be committed against white people as well.
Brian at 8:50pm July 3
Thia, there is a difference between crimes that are mala prohibida and mala per se. That is, there are crimes that are crimes due to legislative fiat (smoking pot, littering, etc.) and crimes that are crimes due to their damage to persons or property as a matter of natural law (violence, rape, murder). Consider this before dismissing the lack of logic of those who oppose the idea of "hate crimes."
In his inaugural address, President Obama said: "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." This echoed a statement Ben Franklin made in 1759: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither...
ACLU Nationwide Tell President Obama to Restore Religious Liberty!
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U.S. policies that purport to address terrorism financing are seriously undermining the Constitution’s fundamental rights to freedom of religion, freedom of association, and freedom from discrimination.A ...
Jean at 12:56am July 2
Well, i think those posts just made the point.
We are free to choose! Enjoy it, embrace it, believe it or don't. Just let me have my right to the same choices.
We are free to choose! Enjoy it, embrace it, believe it or don't. Just let me have my right to the same choices.
Billy at 3:15pm July 2
Jesus Christ is not a myth? oooh, tough words from someone who most assuredly has never read any Hebrew or Aramaic in her life. the name "Jesus Christ" itself is a myth... I love it when those who aren't even aware the Bible wasn't originally written in English and that it has been edited many many many times dare to call other people ignorant.
oh Zeus, save me from your misguided followers.
oh Zeus, save me from your misguided followers.
The Reform Jewish Movement, like many other religious traditions, opposes the use of torture unequivocally. The most common catchphrase of Jewish social justice is undoubtedly "Tzedek, tzedek tirdof," or "Justice, justice shall you pursue" (Deuteronomy 16:20)...
Think racial profiling — using a person’s race, color, ethnicity or national origin to determine whether to stop, search or investigate him or her for alleged criminal activity — is wrong and ineffective...
In my recent book, Jesus Was a Liberal, I wrote: “I believe that Jesus was a religious liberal. He came with a fresh new progressive vision… Instead of an eye for an eye, he asked us to turn the other cheek...
ACLU Nationwide HOMER, LA: According to witnesses, two white police officers came to the house of Bernard Monroe, an elderly African American man, looking for his son, and then shot the unarmed Monroe and planted a gun next to his body. The white police chief said, “If I see three or four young Black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names. I want them to be afraid that they might get arrested.”
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A report by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rights Working Group
Andy at 12:12pm June 30
Wow this is kind of scary for the land of the free and the home of the brave... This cop is a real throw-back to a really regressive era, and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and locked away forever.
The entire law enforcement "mafia" has to be re-trained, since they long-ago have forgotten they are getting paid to serve and protect. They are civil servants, working for the people, and need to be reminded.
The entire law enforcement "mafia" has to be re-trained, since they long-ago have forgotten they are getting paid to serve and protect. They are civil servants, working for the people, and need to be reminded.
Talat at 10:06pm June 30
Enough is enough! Who gives one race the right to oppress another?
(Originally posted at The Washington Spectator.) My name is Murat Kurnaz. I am twenty-seven years old. I was born and raised in Germany. Recently, I got married to a kind young woman from a good family, which makes me happy...
Billy at 5:47am June 30
@Doug: I couldn't agree more. that's why I was so baffled when Congress voted to eliminate the funding necessary to close Gitmo and then claimed that Americans don't want terrorists on our land and in our prisons... even though, ironically, we already have terrorists on our land and in our prisons. I fear we are already screwed again; those really smart enough to run the country well are smart enough to never run for office.
Dave at 2:04pm June 30
And besides the fact that the justification for stopping the funding was " we don't want terrorists on our land", we are talking about people who have had no trial and are therefore NOT terrorists. Remember, this story is of an innocent!
By Lisa Magarrell, Director of the U.S. Accountability Project at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), and Anh-Thu Nguyen, law fellow on the Project. ICTJ assists societies pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. When a U.S...
Jackie at 5:49pm July 1
@talat -- i could not agree more. we should have been doing in 2000 what the iranians are doing right now, putting our balls on the line and saying NO this is not what we voted for. but we just wait for somebody else's revolution to be televised and stay home watching that and talking shit. it's not enough any more.
here's my take on it:
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here's my take on it:
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Jennifer at 8:29am July 2
International rule of laws in a global world. The DOJ handbook USSG section 1030 on wire fraud states even communications abide by International laws- And yes Constitutional case laws have proven Corporate American uses toture.. that is not ligitimate business...wiwa v shell, coca- cola case on torture- many more It is real just not in Main stream media...
The decision to introduce torture as part the United States’ counterterrorism efforts several years ago has engendered shock, anger and profound disappointment both in the U.S. and around the world. The treatment of detainees in U.S...
This coming weekend will mark a historic anniversary for LGBT Americans. It will have been 40 years since an early summer evening in New York City’s Greenwich Village saw the birth of the modern gay rights movement...
If you’ve been following our conversation about torture, you know by now that today is International Day in Support of Torture Victims. The ACLU has been calling for accountability for the abuse and torture of detainees in U.S. custody, but what does accountability mean in practice...
(Originally posted on Daily Kos.) Today marks the anniversary of the day that the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) came into effect...
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Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, talks about what accountability for torture means, what is still missing from the public record, and the need to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate those who authorized torture.
Michelle at 7:40pm June 26
Stop making teenagers criminals for consensual sexual acts within a few years difference in age. Maybe we don't like it morally. We all wish they would wait. But by turning them into criminals and sending them to prison with true rapists and pedophiles, we are destroying their lives and creating criminals. Add to that, time on the Sex Offender Registry, we are taking away any chance at a successful future.
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
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"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
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We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
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Also take a moment to take the poll
"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
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We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Jennifer at 7:59am July 4
I want to persoanlly thanks all those agree that torture need to be held accountabilty. The State of Texas needs shamed by the MEN in this State who made and acted such acts and illegal program called the US Torture program.. If they abuse power to do this elsewhere, with arrogance, comtempt for International rule of laws these atrocities have ... Read Moreoccured on domestci soil. American agents that torture other americans. This is not intelligence what Texas Men did to humans. Never turn a blind eye that is illegal and unconstitutional.Justice may be blind but in a democracy 90% of the time with the United States District Courts she can see her way to the truth. EXPOSE AND EXPEL_ corruption all false feedback needs accountabilty, criminal culpabilty and prosecution. That is the only way to deter men that rape, torture use pyswar, and abuse state and local law enforecement. The State of Texas is guilty of crimes against humanity.
Civil liberties and human rights organizations around the country are calling for accountability for torture. I’m amazed and profoundly disappointed that this has apparently become necessary in our country...
Bob at 11:54am June 26
The "elite" have always had a "special status" when it comes to the rule of law. This should not be surprising.
Susan at 3:22pm June 26
As the grown daughter of a retired USAF officer, I salute you, Sir! Thank you for saying so simply and personally what the entire nation needs to hear, again and again, until this 'debate' is history.
In 1988, when Ronald Reagan signed the U.N...
Michelle at 7:41pm June 26
Stop making teenagers criminals for consensual sexual acts within a few years difference in age. Maybe we don't like it morally. We all wish they would wait. But by turning them into criminals and sending them to prison with true rapists and pedophiles, we are destroying their lives and creating criminals. Add to that, time on the Sex Offender Registry, we are taking away any chance at a successful future.
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
http://apps.facebook.com/c
Also take a moment to take the poll
"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
http://apps.facebook.com/m
We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
http://apps.facebook.com/c
Also take a moment to take the poll
"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
http://apps.facebook.com/m
We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Talat at 8:00pm June 26
GITMO is just the tip of the iceberg. This report verifies my statements. Action needs to be taken to demand accountability.
Today we’re running a cool new ad campaign, and we need your help! We’re picking our favorite tweets tagged "#torture" and retweeting them into our blog ad, which is running on a bunch of major blogs. So join us...
Michelle at 7:40pm June 26
Stop making teenagers criminals for consensual sexual acts within a few years difference in age. Maybe we don't like it morally. We all wish they would wait. But by turning them into criminals and sending them to prison with true rapists and pedophiles, we are destroying their lives and creating criminals. Add to that, time on the Sex Offender Registry, we are taking away any chance at a successful future.
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
http://apps.facebook.com/c
Also take a moment to take the poll
"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
http://apps.facebook.com/m
We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
http://apps.facebook.com/c
Also take a moment to take the poll
"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
http://apps.facebook.com/m
We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Matthew at 2:42pm June 27
yeah a bus driver told me someone in Colorado here was given a sex offence ticket because his fly was open nothin even hanging out. thats getting crazy and a friend of mine was charged with offence because he asked a girl to the prom and she diden;t like it. Lets restore some sence of freedom to our american courting this is just a state of fear and propaganda.
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Today is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of #Torture. Join our campaign and tweet for human rights and against #torture!
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We can't sweep the abuses of the last eight years under the rug. Accountability for torture is a legal, political, and moral imperative. We've uncovered thousands of documents through our Torture FOIA and with mounting evidence must come mounting pressure to appoint an Independent Prosecutor to inve...
Michelle at 7:41pm June 26
Stop making teenagers criminals for consensual sexual acts within a few years difference in age. Maybe we don't like it morally. We all wish they would wait. But by turning them into criminals and sending them to prison with true rapists and pedophiles, we are destroying their lives and creating criminals. Add to that, time on the Sex Offender Registry, we are taking away any chance at a successful future.
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
http://apps.facebook.com/c
Also take a moment to take the poll
"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
http://apps.facebook.com/m
We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Please join the cause - decriminalize teenage sex.
http://apps.facebook.com/c
Also take a moment to take the poll
"Should Teenagers be sent to prison and placed on the Sex Offender Registry for having consensual sex within a few year age gap?"
http://apps.facebook.com/m
We are wasting valuable tax dollars prosecuting teenagers for what they have done for decades and then watering down the sex offender registry with non violent teens who never committed a violent crime. It is time to stop ruining
Yaisluna at 11:28am June 27
I don't do "twitter." Sorry.
The Supreme Court today ruled that school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old Arizona girl when they strip searched her based on a classmate’s uncorroborated accusation that she previously possessed ibuprofen...
Dana at 8:45am June 26
the supreme court did something right today. Thank you aclu
Concerned at 2:09am July 2
ACLU. thank you! Would this ruling also cover coaches doing strip searchs on a student(s) before a wrestling match. I need to know immediately.. thank you again for all you do to keep our children safe.
Today, the ACLU’s Human Rights Program and Alkarama for Human Rights sent a request to two U.N. Special Rapporteurs (human rights experts) asking them to investigate the “extraordinary rendition”, detention and torture of Italian citizen Abou Elkassim Britel...
Savana Redding and her mother, April, are plaintiffs in the case Safford Unified School District v. Redding, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court today...
ACLU Nationwide "Neither the Constitution nor common sense permits school officials to treat a strip search the same as a locker or backpack search. Today's ruling eliminates any confusion that school officials may have had about this seemingly obvious point." -Steven R. Shapiro, the ACLU's national Legal Director
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When Savana Redding was just 13 years old, she was strip-searched for allegedly possessing prescription-strength ibuprofen. This traumatizing search was based solely on the false and uncorroborated accusation ...
Today the BBC reported that detainees held in U.S. custody from 2002 – 2008 at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan were tortured. Given the thousands of documentary pages of evidence of torture in Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and the black sites, is anyone surprised...
As details have poured out this spring about the U.S. torture program, attention was focused on the roles of psychologists and other health professionals in designing, conducting, and legitimizing that program...
In the notes to his novel 1984, George Orwell described "doublethink" as controlled insanity...
Suzanne at 9:30am June 25
Kevin, the previous administration had no trouble using VERY simple language and concepts to mislead people. I'm not a fifth-grader and I don't like to be spoken to as one.
Camille at 8:59am June 26
Check out the film (on the web) by Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self, about the influence of the pychologists on the populace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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For far too long, qualified, hard-working people in the American workforce have been denied employment, fired, or otherwise discriminated against because of their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Help ensure fairness in the workplace today.
Please join us in urging Congress to support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (H.R. 2981) by e-mailing your member of Congress today!
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There are no federal laws outlawing employment discrimination against LGBT Americans. In fact, it still remains legal to discriminate against someone based on sexual orientation in 30 states and ...
Michelle at 5:05am June 25
Privitization, outsourcing, all in the name of the inherent greed within capitalism does nothing but hurt those who are the have-nots. A little bit of regulation would do this nation good - look at what happened on Wall Street? All because of decades of deregulation.
Susan at 6:55pm June 29
Even with anti-discrimination laws, those in power always find a way to discriminate any way they like.
(A version of this article originally appeared on AJC.com) I have been watching with interest and apprehension the movement reverberating in my birthplace over the past few weeks...
Michelle at 5:02am June 25
I feel your pain Aurora. I used to live in a small Southern town too. I couldn't take it for many other reasons, but including the one you point out. I left to come back to home to Detroit, where I am able to express my Buddhist philosphy and practice. And, Detroit is also home of many Muslims. That would never be possible in a small southern town. Even here, I still feel that suspicion from Christians.
Camille at 9:00am June 26
I don't think you are safe up here in CT either....
ACLU Nationwide "In my trips back to visit family and friends (in Iran), I often boasted about the guarantee of religious freedom in the United States. This fundamental right has been increasingly denied, however, to Muslim-Americans post-9/11, tarnishing America’s reputation as a beacon of religious freedom." - Azadeh N. Shahshahani, of the ACLU Foundation of Georgia.
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The ACLU released a comprehensive report, Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity, documenting the consequence of U.S. government actions on American Muslims' exercise of their right to profess and practice their religion through charitable giving. The ACLU's research shows that U.S. terrorism financing po...
Chloe at 2:06pm June 24
I am a member of the ACLU but I believe all faiths and groups with 501(c)'s should be extra diligent on what their money funds.
Aurora at 8:16pm June 24
Chloe, I wish that religious groups actually felt that way. If one is granted exemptions based on separation of church/state, then they should also understand that church has no say in state policy. Unless of course they wish to be governed by the state.
That said, I wish that the religious bigotry of the Bush administration had not so polluted ... Read Morethe societal conversation, nor given such unfettered powers to intelligence organizations in regards to charitable organizations. These last 8 years are going to be very difficult for US to recover from in the perception held by the global community. At least people of sense will understand that it was Bush n Co, and not the will of the people, that made it so.
That said, I wish that the religious bigotry of the Bush administration had not so polluted ... Read Morethe societal conversation, nor given such unfettered powers to intelligence organizations in regards to charitable organizations. These last 8 years are going to be very difficult for US to recover from in the perception held by the global community. At least people of sense will understand that it was Bush n Co, and not the will of the people, that made it so.
As debates about accountability mechanisms continue throughout America, thousands of Arabs, South Asians, and Muslims victimized by Bush-era detention and torture policies continue to suffer, struggling to make ends meet, living daily reminders of their detention and disappearance...
On Friday, Steve Bierfeldt, treasurer of Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, and Larry Schwartztol, fearless ACLU attorney, appeared on CNN to talk about our new lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security...
Pop quiz! This Friday, June 26 is: A: International Day in Support of Torture Victims B: The U.N. anniversary of the day the Convention Against Torture came into effect C: A day to take action and demand accountability for torture D: All of the above
The New York Times did what they do best this week with a story on the National Security Agency’s once again overstepping its bounds with its surveillance of your phone calls and emails...
It is welcome news to see the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court mandating the recusal of the Chief Justice of the West Virginia State Supreme Court of Appeals from a case involving a company whose CEO invested millions in electing him to the bench...
Brady at 11:24am June 21
I want the ACLU to fight to limit the use of Credit Reports in employment considerations. Job loss often leads to financial chaos and it is patently unfair to discriminate against an otherwise qualified candidate on the basis of a credit report. It is un-American! Many of our forefathers and mothers had their own financial chaos and by today's standards they might not even be allowed their roles.
Jeannette at 7:30pm June 21
I want the ACLU to take up the fight against prosecuting teenagers for consensual sex.
Maybe we don't like it morally. We all wish they would wait. By turning them into crimiinals and sending them to prison with violent predators, we are destroying their lives and creating criminals. Add to that, time on the Sex Offender Registry, we are taking away any chance at a successful future.
Over and over men are prosecuted differently than women, and minorities face the harshest penalties. It is time for a class action lawsuit. They teach teenagers to use birthcontrol and supply them with free confidential state supplied birth control. They do this because they think teens are capable of making that choice, then they turn around and prosecute a 17 year old for consensual sex with a 15 year old.... Read More
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Maybe we don't like it morally. We all wish they would wait. By turning them into crimiinals and sending them to prison with violent predators, we are destroying their lives and creating criminals. Add to that, time on the Sex Offender Registry, we are taking away any chance at a successful future.
Over and over men are prosecuted differently than women, and minorities face the harshest penalties. It is time for a class action lawsuit. They teach teenagers to use birthcontrol and supply them with free confidential state supplied birth control. They do this because they think teens are capable of making that choice, then they turn around and prosecute a 17 year old for consensual sex with a 15 year old.... Read More
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Joan at 11:44pm June 21
Paid speech should not be equated with free speech. Campaign finance reform will never be effective without banning TV and radio advertising for political campaigns. Let's hear candidates have real debates (rather than the Q&A sessions all the talking heads mistakenly call debates) in town hall meetings and other public forums -- which can be broadcast and televised as a necessary public service in a democratic form of government.
(Originally posted on Daily Kos.) It might seem hard to believe, but it is true. The Department of Defense (DOD) considers protests an example of "low-level terrorism," at least according to an exam DOD employees were required to take this year...
Austin at 11:38am June 19
Oh of course they'll change it after they're caught...
Vanessa at 8:38am June 21
this is a shame to America they like to presume to others about their democracy and free speech yeah right!!!
Last week, we kicked off an Online Torture Forum to continue the conversation about torture and accountability. So far, we’ve featured a variety of voices calling for accountability for the abuse of detainees in U.S...
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"Let’s be clear -- no one is interested in taking away the government’s legitimate right to protect sensitive national security information. But, the Bush administration expanded the definition of "state secrets" dangerously beyond its previous limits and set a dangerous precedent that has continued.
In addition to extraordinary rendition, the claim of "state secrets" has also been made about illegal wiretapping, torture and other breaches of U.S. and international law.
Supporting this bill will have an impact on countless civil liberties cases in the months and years ahead." - Caroline Fredrickson, Director - ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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The Justice Department has asked the 9th District Court of Appeals to throw out an extraordinary rendition lawsuit on the basis that it cannot be tried without revealing "state secrets." We need to stop ...
Michele at 11:25pm June 19
Iran's government has state secrets (like where the ballots are). Our government should not be needing them so broadly. What happened to this Presidency?
Brady at 11:25am June 21
I want the ACLU to fight to limit the use of Credit Reports in employment considerations. Job loss often leads to financial chaos and it is patently unfair to discriminate against an otherwise qualified candidate on the basis of a credit report. It is un-American! Many of our forefathers and mothers had their own financial chaos and by today's standards they might not even be allowed their roles.
ACLU Nationwide "It is simply unfair to force Sabri Benkahla to serve his sentence in a horrifically isolated housing unit designed by the government to hold terrorists when he has never been convicted of any crime of terrorism," - David Shapiro, staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project, on the ACLU's legal complaint filed today challenging the secret creation Communication Management Units.
Source: www.aclu.org
Communication Management Units (CMUs) were designed to house prisoners viewed by the government as terrorists, but have been established in violation of federal laws requiring public scrutiny and today are disproportionately inhabited by Muslim prisoners – many of whom have never been convicted of t...
Lee at 3:04pm June 18
Well then Gaelic, you should have NO compassion for Big Business, Big Pharma, The AMA, Insurance Companies, the Bush Administration, and the Congress of The United States.
How do you feel about Menachim Begin- former Prime Minister of Israel, who was also implicated in, charged and convicted of helping to plant a bomb in The Hotel David in ... Read MoreBethlehem? It killed over 200 innocent people. The point is: If we're going to be just, we can't pick and choose who gets justice. It belongs to everyone or no one ...
How do you feel about Menachim Begin- former Prime Minister of Israel, who was also implicated in, charged and convicted of helping to plant a bomb in The Hotel David in ... Read MoreBethlehem? It killed over 200 innocent people. The point is: If we're going to be just, we can't pick and choose who gets justice. It belongs to everyone or no one ...
Toby at 3:26pm June 18
At our current rate it is looking more and more like 'no one'.
Except financial institutions.
Except financial institutions.
ACLU Nationwide "Our whole community was approached by the FBI about our donations. They've intimidated our whole community. People aren't giving as much as they should be giving, because of this." - Donor whose father was questioned by FBI.
Source: www.aclu.org
> Chilling Muslim Charitable Giving in the "War on Terrorism Financing" (6/16/2009)> Executive Summary
ACLU Nationwide "President Obama should not allow the CIA to determine whether evidence of its own unlawful conduct should be made available to the public." - Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project
Source: www.aclu.org
We can't sweep the abuses of the last eight years under the rug. Accountability for torture is a legal, political, and moral imperative.
Yaisluna at 7:04am June 18
Well, he shouldn't, but he will. He's only interested in screwing the military for doing what the White House says, not in prosecuting the CIA for torturing people.
Eric at 7:31am June 18
TO THE ACLU AND ALL... any person can rewrite this and file a affidavit and take to grand jury foremen by passing the d.a/atty gen http://peacepink.ning.com/
ACLU Nationwide "What does it say about our commitment to justice when we are willing to sacrifice a few at the bottom but unwilling to hold accountable those at the top?" - Anthony D. Romero and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld
Source: www.salon.com
The ACLU's executive director joins with a military officer to ask for a special prosecutor for torture
Veselina at 1:52pm June 17
he is just trying to compromise, so the Republicans would be more likely to agree with him on more important issues... too bad it's not gonna work, because they are too stubborn!
Eric at 7:31am June 18
TO THE ACLU AND ALL... any person can rewrite this and file a affidavit and take to grand jury foremen by passing the d.a/atty gen http://peacepink.ning.com/
ACLU Nationwide Hearing is Starting NOW - 10AM EST - Engage the Senate Judiciary Committee- Hold the Dept of Justice Accountable http://bit.ly/1adi2n
The Sunday collection plate is as American as religion itself. Americans are religious and generous when it comes to charitable giving. They often go together. There’s Catholic Charities and Mormons famously tithe a percentage of their income. Muslims are also big givers...
Aaron at 9:24pm June 16
The ACLU is accusing the laws regarding charities of being overly broad and thus affecting Muslim charities adversely. Fine, but the article and the accompanying video was equally non-specific about (a) some charities (or givers) which have been unfairly targeted and (b) which parts of the laws/policies need to be improved and how. They mostly just... Read More mentioned the 'chilling affect' that would-be givers feel, which may be so, but is not enough to inform our policy. Perhaps their report goes into that, but I haven't read it, and I doubt most of the audience will either, so it would be helpful to hit some of those points elsewhere.
As for the bit about zakat and religious freedom, that seems like ridiculous hyperbole to me. AFAIK (as a non-Muslim) zakat does not require charitable giving only to benefit Muslim groups. If a Muslim cannot or will not give to a Muslim charity, well, there are plenty of non-Muslim women who could use some shelters too.
As for the bit about zakat and religious freedom, that seems like ridiculous hyperbole to me. AFAIK (as a non-Muslim) zakat does not require charitable giving only to benefit Muslim groups. If a Muslim cannot or will not give to a Muslim charity, well, there are plenty of non-Muslim women who could use some shelters too.
Shakeerah at 9:28pm June 16
Why is google and you tube blocking the view of this video?
Wednesday, June 17th at 10:00 a.m., the Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice". Attorney General Eric Holder will be the sole witness and will face a number of questions from the members of the committee...
Eric at 8:29am June 18
any person can rewrite this and file a affidavit and take to grand jury foremen by passing the d.a/atty gen http://peacepink.ning.com/
Eric at 8:29am June 18
NOTICE AND DEMAND FOR CLERK’S ENTRY OF DEFAULT ON THE CIA file and stamped on June 15 2009 3:05 pm pst http://bit.ly/nkp8S
NOTICE AND DEMAND FOR CLERK’S ENTRY OF DEFAULT file and stamped on June 15 2009 3:09 pm pst http://bit.ly/1507sN
NOTICE AND DEMAND FOR CLERK’S ENTRY OF DEFAULT file and stamped on June 15 2009 3:09 pm pst http://bit.ly/1507sN
The role that psychologists played in the Bush administration’s detention and interrogation policies is slowly being made public...
Dan at 5:34pm June 16
Forget the Nietzschean claptrap. In fact, it's not true that, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Nietzsche forgot that it can also permanently maim you. By the way, he died insane, you know.
Stephen at 6:19pm June 16
psychology has helped many, many people, it has hurt some. nothing is perfect and there are bad apples in every barrel. i hope there is a wise counselor around when kevin feels the need for one. i also hope that counselor is non judgemental and never tells him to "just grow up". i wish it were that simple. asking for help is a sign of strength and maturity. some folks are never able to obtain that strength or attain that maturity.
(Originally posted on Daily Kos.) U.S. policies that purport to address terrorism financing are seriously undermining the Constitution’s fundamental rights to freedom of religion, freedom of association, and freedom from discrimination...
Kevin at 8:49am June 17
If they were serious, they'd also be interviewing right wing fundamentalist Christian givers, Catholics funding IRA-like stuff, people giving to quasi-religious anti-abortion hate preachers, &c &c By singling out Muslims, they prove the lie behind this legislation.
Personally, I'd rather we have fewer laws and less security theatre. The stuff in question here is a prime candidate for immediate and permanent repeal.
Personally, I'd rather we have fewer laws and less security theatre. The stuff in question here is a prime candidate for immediate and permanent repeal.
ACLU Nationwide "After months of suffering and torture, physically and mentally, they did not care about my injuries that they inflicted to my eye, to my stomach, to my bladder, and my left thigh and my reproductive organs. They didn’t care that I almost died from these injuries. Doctors told me that I nearly died four times." "They say ‘this in your diary.’"- Abu Zubaydah, from newly unredacted transcripts. Full transcript below.
Source: www.aclu.org
On June 15, 2009, the CIA released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody. In previously released versions of the documents, the CIA had removed virtually all references to the abuse of prisoners in their custody; th...
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