Ann Beeson, associate legal director for the A.C.L.U, speaking on Bush administration attempts to monitor and criminalise dissent:
"You look at these documents, and you think, wow, we have really returned to the days of J. Edgar Hoover, when you see in F.B.I. files that they're talking about a group like the Catholic Workers league as having a communist ideology."
"You look at these documents, and you think, wow, we have really returned to the days of J. Edgar Hoover, when you see in F.B.I. files that they're talking about a group like the Catholic Workers league as having a communist ideology."
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On the face of it, I disapprove and think it's likely to be counter-productive. Any increased police power should be challenged. Full stop. They have far too much power as it is.
Probably just counting on nobody taking action in the current climate. That's how the police usually get away with using excessive powers, bestowed by a govt obsessed with law and order. Well, obsessed because of the electorate, actually.
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