Dystopia revisited. (On The Contrary).(American civil liberties under Geroge W. Bush's administration)(Brief Article)

IT'S TOO BAD THAT THE WORD "ORWELLIAN" IS LOSING its power from overuse, because sometimes no other word will do. Sad to say, it's often used appropriately. There's no better word to describe U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's depiction of himself as a freedom fighter. "We're not sacrificing civil liberties, we're securing civil liberties," he stated on National Public Radio on Sept.

11, 2002. That's why the administration has claimed the unilateral power to designate any one of us a terrorist and subject to indefinite detention without a trial--or even ...

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