Bush Adm. Weighed Restricting 1st Amendment
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States, deploy high-tech surveillance against U.S. citizens and potentially suspend First Amendment freedom-of-the-press rights in order to combat the terror threat, according to a memo released Monday. Full Story »
Posted by Glenn LaBauve
Governments, even ours do and consider all types of action in times of distress, 911 was certainly one. Roosevelt suspended all the civil rights of tens of thousands of Americans in WWII and locked them in camps. The real world is always a hard place. Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20.