Sentences with phrase «civil liberties groups who»

The figures will provide succour to civil liberties groups who argue that terror laws are being over-used.

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(Reuters)- A Muslim civil liberties group said on Wednesday it wants a review of the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida.

Prominent academics and civil liberties organizations have raised the prospect of stripping churches of their tax exemptions and pursuing litigation to require private companies and civic groups to be led and staffed by people who pledge allegiance to the moral creed of the left.

If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war, torture, militarism, the warfare state, state worship, suppression of civil liberties, an imperial presidency, blind nationalism, government propaganda, and an aggressive foreign policy it is Christians, and especially conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians who claim to strictly follow the dictates of Scripture and worship the Prince of Peace.

We have become known as a group of people who sees themselves perpetually under attack, perpetually victimized, and perpetually entitled, a group who, ironically, often responds to these imagined disadvantages by advancing legislation that restricts the civil liberties of other people.

These peers have ignored the rather definitive findings of a cross party groups of MPs and peers in 2012, who found a snoopers» charter would disproportionately infringe civil liberties and be prohibitively expensive.

The move will be a massive relief to civil liberties groups and privacy campaigners, who had long opposed plans to hand details of users» internet use to intelligence agencies and police.

Civil liberties group Liberty's Sara Ogilvie, who has written for us on the attack today, puts it like this:

Samuelson, who was an author of a brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group...