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Back to the future.

Publication: Free Inquiry
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04
Format: Online - approximately 806 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Back to the future.(Op-Ed)

Article Excerpt
Soon after the 9/11 attacks, when the Bush administration was summarily imprisoning immigrants who had no apparent connection to terrorism and asserting virtually unaccountable power to spy on citizens and noncitizens alike, Attorney General Ashcroft famously sneered at the fears of civil libertarians. We were scaring people with "phantoms of lost liberty," he scoffed.

His metaphor was inadvertently appropriate. When the Federal Bureau of Investigation subpoenaed records of an antiwar protest at Drake University in February of this year, the ghost of Richard Nixon seemed to hover over us, taking names and serial numbers of Americans who had the temerity to protest what they regarded as an unjust and unnecessary war.

Federal subpoenas were served on Drake University, the National...



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