The State of our Civil Liberties: A post 9/11 Health Check
To defend ourselves from terrorist threats, must we suspend the very liberties that define our society as free?This is the question the nation faces today, according to Nancy Murray, who warns that the expansion of the post-9/11 USA Patriot Act—what one former Congressional supporter calls “Patriot Act creep”—now threatens our rights to privacy, freedom of expression and due process.
Nancy Murray has been the director of the Massachusetts ACLU’s Bill of Rights Education Project since its founding in 1987. A Cape Ann Fourm speaker in 2002, she has spoken at hundreds of public forums to encourage teachers, students and the public to think critically about civil liberties issues and to work for a future in which our civil rights will be safeguarded and enlarged.