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    • Sacrifice liberty for security? Not without a fight

      Posted by Damianmann from Topple Bush

      "This is supposed to be America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. But I'm beginning to have my doubts, about the free part and the brave part, too. This America, this increasingly strange America, is looking more and more like the land of the cowed and the home of the silent." Bookman questions the rationale of Americans willing to allow the government to erode our basic freedoms and rights through fear.

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    • TomPaine.com - After Abu Ghraib, Impunity

      Posted by Damianmann from Tom Paine

      Two years after the abuse by U.S. soldiers of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq first came to light, accountability for what turns out to have been a widespread pattern of mistreatment at several detention sites, including torture and at least eight homicides, remains elusive, according to a new report released by three major human rights groups Wednesday.

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