Archive for the 'Torture' Category

This approximately 30-minute program was broadcast on WERU Voices for March 18, 2008. Shenna and I discuss Real ID (Maine is leading national dissent from Homeland Security policy), and the Military Commissions for Terror War detainees. Click HERE for recent posts in the Maine Owl blog giving some background on rights and justice issues, along with links to news stories about William Haynes and Col. Morris Davis, who are discussed in the program (these are February 2008 posts).

 

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Abuse of power post 9/11; Updates included

Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, gave a talk on October 26, 2006 at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. This program originally appeared in two parts on the WERU Community Radio Voices programs with Amy Browne. Archives are located HERE and HERE.

The podcast posted today includes an extended introduction with important updates. The continuing hot issues to which Ms. Bellows lends sharp analysis in this program are two of the most vicious assaults on civil liberties in our times: destruction of the 4th amendment to the US Constitution through warrantless government surveillance and indefinite imprisonment and torture of terror war suspects. Discussion of events on these fronts subsequent to Ms. Bellows presentation with links for key news stories appears below the fold.

 

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