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Liberty in Troubled Times

by James Walsh
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As Walsh points out in LIBERTY IN TROUBLED TIMES, legal technicalities that favor warrantless surveillance are precisely what’s wrong with FISA and the Patriot Act. “These laws, with their vague and convoluted definitions of key concepts like surveillance, communication and citizen are simply the worst kind of statist power grab,” he writes. In LIBERTY IN TROUBLED TIMES, the author acknowledges that some parts of the Patriot Act—especially those that allow more direct data-sharing among law enforcement agencies—are defensible. But “the Patriot Act is an elaborate house built on top if the FISA, which is a foundation of sand.” Walsh remains hopeful about public response: History suggests that liberties will rebound. They did after the statist power grabs that produced Adams’s Alien and Sedition Acts, Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus and FDR’s imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. ...the Patriot Act will likely join those laws in the reject bin of U.S legal history.
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Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing

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  • ISBN: 1563437783
  • Release date: December 5, 2009

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  • ISBN: 1563437783
  • File size: 781 KB
  • Release date: December 5, 2009

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As Walsh points out in LIBERTY IN TROUBLED TIMES, legal technicalities that favor warrantless surveillance are precisely what’s wrong with FISA and the Patriot Act. “These laws, with their vague and convoluted definitions of key concepts like surveillance, communication and citizen are simply the worst kind of statist power grab,” he writes. In LIBERTY IN TROUBLED TIMES, the author acknowledges that some parts of the Patriot Act—especially those that allow more direct data-sharing among law enforcement agencies—are defensible. But “the Patriot Act is an elaborate house built on top if the FISA, which is a foundation of sand.” Walsh remains hopeful about public response: History suggests that liberties will rebound. They did after the statist power grabs that produced Adams’s Alien and Sedition Acts, Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus and FDR’s imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. ...the Patriot Act will likely join those laws in the reject bin of U.S legal history.
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Current Events Philosophy Politics Nonfiction