Human Rights back issues from January 2002:
From the chair
Jan 01, 2002; ... There is a compelling need for reasoned debate on the constitutional issues that have arisen from the federal government's policies concerning those persons who have been detained in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on our country. We can all be proud that leaders of the legal ...
USA Patriot Act
Jan 01, 2002; ... The Good, the Bad, and the Sunset HR 3162 RDS 107th CONGRRESS 1st Session H. R. 3162 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES October 24, 2001 Received AN ACT To deter and punish terrorist attacks in the United States and ...
Intelligence, terrorism, and civil liberties
Jan 01, 2002; ... History has repeatedly demonstrated the dangers of allowing governments to secretly collect intelligence on their own people. When government authority extends beyond law enforcement-investigating criminal activity-it has inevitably been followed by abuses. A key lesson learned from the domestic ...
Civil liberties in a time of crisis
Jan 01, 2002; ... The terrorist attacks of September 11 represented a quantum leap in the deadliness and audacity of terror. They revealed a vulnerability that many in the United States had never before appreciated. And they spurred adoption of many sound initiatives to better prevent terrorism ....
Terrorizing immigrants in the name of fighting terrorism
Jan 01, 2002; ... It is often said that civil liberties are the first casualties of war. It may be more accurate to say that immigrants' civil liberties are the first to go. In the wake of the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11, we all feel vulnerable in ways that we have never felt before, and many ...
Alien justice: What's wrong with military trials of terrorist suspects?
Jan 01, 2002; ... [F]ollowing a rise in extremist violence, the Government began trying cases of persons accused of terrorism and membership in terrorist groups before military tribunals .... This use of the military ... courts ... has deprived hundreds of civilian defendants of the constitutional right to be ...
Military tribunals: A travesty of justice
Jan 01, 2002; ... The president's executive order establishing military tribunals to try those whom he deems to be "terrorists" is not only in violation of international human rights law, but it also flies in the face of U.S. domestic law. The U.S. Senate has ratified the United Nations International Covenant on ...
In defense of liberty at a time of national emergency
Jan 01, 2002; ... A sustained war against terrorism in the United States is unlike any war we have ever fought: the enemy is diffuse; the targets are civilians; the threat is constant and the war may never reach a decisive public end. But as government takes affirmative steps to protect civilians, we must not ...
Civil liberties and human rights in the aftermath of September 11
Jan 01, 2002; ... (though much of the concern over managing the tension between liberty and security in response to the recent terrorist attacks has been focused on the anti-terrorism bills and the resulting USA Patriot Act (Patriot Act) adopted in late fall 2001, the issues presented by the new statute are less ...
First thoughts on the new Money Laundering Act
Jan 01, 2002; ... In Crisis and Leviathan, Robert Higgs documented a pattern repeated often in American history: the growth of government and loss of liberty during times of crisis. The current crisis followin the September 11 terrorist attacks is no exception. Looked at coldly, those attacks constituted a ...
Crisis mode: Information dissemination during times of conflict
Jan 01, 2002; ... Throughout our history, communications and marketing efforts have played an integral (if often concealed) role during times of conflict and crisis. Leaders necessarily tried to persuade both domestic and international audiences, while carefully monitoring the release of sensitive information ...