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Terrorism bill ignores basic U.S. principles.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-SEP-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Terrorism bill ignores basic U.S. principles.(Commentary)

Article Excerpt
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Edward Fadeley and Joyce Gall

What are we to think of the compromise bill now being considered by Congress that redefines our government's treatment and prosecution of presumed terrorists?

When our legislators jettison established civic freedoms, presumably in response to feared threats to national security, in what possible sense can anyone claim that the United States represents freedom and democracy, and thus merits global leadership and respect?

How does abducting people at our airports and shipping them to secret foreign sites for physically abusive interrogation, as was done recently to a Canadian citizen, promote leadership, freedom or democracy in our country? That Canadian was released after a year,...

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