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Thursday, October 05, 2006

AWOT EVENT: WHAT IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO LIBERTY TODAY?

The United States is famous for its commitment to liberty. Yet today many Americans feel that their liberty is being threatened – by terrorists who call our modern values into question, or by a wayward administration that flaunts the constitution and surveils its citizens, or by a willingness on the part of politicians to sacrifice liberty for security, or by a public itself more concerned with security than liberty. For a society committed to liberty, yet that feels its liberty threatened, it is a pressing question: ‘what is the greatest threat to liberty today’? What is the best way to defend liberty in these times?


Speakers include:

Priti Patel, an attorney with Human Rights First's U.S. Law and Security Program (www.humanrightsfirst.org)

Megan McArdle, a correspondent for The Economist who blogs at Asymmetrical Information (www.janegalt.net)

Danya Reda, an attorney practicing in New York City and an editor of Against the War on Terror

posted by Editors at 10/05/2006 12:30:00 PM  

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Good times, thanks guys and gals.

-- L

11:43 PM  
Anonymous said...

anyone take notes or write an article about what went down at this event?

1:38 PM  

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