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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Are We Terrorists?

James Bovard has an op-ed in the LATimes describing some of the expansive and just outright bizarre ways the government has described what counts as a terrorist suspect. We, among others, apparently fit the profile: 'The Department of Homeland Security in May 2003 urged 18,000 local and state police departments to treat critics of the war on terror as potential terrorists, according to a confidential DHS memo made public in 2004.' Read on.

posted by Editors at 2/09/2006 07:38:00 AM  

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