Sentences with phrase «civil libertarian who»

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The civil libertarians have not recognized the problem: by their lights, the liberties of the creationists and others who hold other - than - naturalistic views of human origins are not being infringed upon because only scientific truth is arrayed against them.

But even as the technology is proving useful on a variety of fronts, its growing deployment is raising alarms among civil libertarians, who worry that the capability to identify people based solely on their appearance will erode privacy.

Last week on the blog The Free for All, civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate issued a call for an ethics investigation of the Department of Justice lawyers who advised the CIA on the legality of its torture practices.

Or, if one were to consider the civil libertarian streak of Democratic thought (which they wouldn't, since the party in power always looks to its adherents who favor perpetuating that power, the foresight to reflect that its opponents will eventually come to power being quite beyond it), Randy Barnett and quite a few others.

The NSA's dragnet at one time captured messages written by Americans who were not suspects but merely mentioned people who were, prompting an outcry from civil libertarians.