IP: re Americans support civil liberties cutbacks - some suggest torture

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:31:12 -0600
> From: Steve Cohen <stevecoh1 () home com>
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> Subject: Re: IP: Americans support civil liberties cutbacks - some 
> suggest  torture
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> Why am I not surprised?  Might some of this support for civil-liberties 
> curtailment be because of the generally uncritical attitude taken toward 
> it by the mass media where the vast majority of the American people get 
> their news?  In order to follow this civil liberties issue until a couple 
> of weeks ago, you pretty much had to look for it on the internet. It was 
> only when conservative William Safire of the New York Times came out 
> publicly against these actions that the liberals in our so-called 
> liberal-dominated media felt safe enough to do likewise.
>
> Will the hearings before the Judiciary Committee be televised?  It would 
> take several weeks of this, IMHO, to put the issue on something 
> approximating an equal footing.  We can only  hope that those who must 
> lead the opposition to civil-liberties erosion are not going to let 
> themselves be deterred by polls under such conditions.


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