Sentences with phrase «civil liberties of other»

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.

US Christians concerned to suppress the civil liberties of others are agitating in Wisconsin to burn a novel that is sympathetic to the plight of young homosexuals.

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Cook wrote that the government should drop the legal request and instead «form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties, to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedom.»

To other Bloomington residents, the sexual preference amendment signaled a victory for human justice and civil liberties in keeping with the spirit of American democracy.

On some Israeli causes they will find their best allies in dispensational premillennial fundamentalism, while on issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal Protestants.

The orders are also, in the Lutheran view, a school in which all citizens are educated to care for each other, to do their duties even against their egoistic drives, and to use their «liberty and ability to achieve civil righteousness,» as Article XVIII of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession puts it.

It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

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.

It can remind us that those who so cherished liberty for themselves were willing to enslave and exploit others; that a civil war and long years of struggle were required before the nation legally ended slavery, segregation and discrimination and attempted to redress the harm done to the conquered native people.

A number of Protestant, Catholic and civil liberties groups challenged this special nod to one faith, declaring that such recognition jeopardizes the rights of other churches (and of individual Catholics) by creating a direct government link with the Vatican.

I think there was a time that many believed their faith drove them to seek justice - abolitionists, civil rights leader, healthcare, etc. but now it just seems many want to isolate themselves from the «others» who won't «turn to Christ» and deny them rights in the name of religious liberty.

Bishop Paulose who was deeply concerned about civil liberties and other fundamental rights of citizens realized that the Emergency was an attempt to crush democracy by an authoritarian regime.

Preemptive wars, abridgments of civil liberty, cuts in social service, subsidies to churches, and other like initiatives are not just wrapped in the flag; together with the flag, they are swathed in the holy.

The amendment to the civil liberties policy motion read: «The protection of freedom of expression, by reforming the libel laws in England and Wales to ensure a better balance is provided between free speech, responsible journalism, scientific discourse and the public interest on one hand and powerful corporations, wealthy individuals and vested interests on the other.»

It is ridiculous that we were made to look to the right of the other parties on civil liberties.

He is openly racist, supports the use of torture and other mass civil liberties violations, has praised Kim Jong - un, Bashar al - Assad and Saddam Hussein, and has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons against Europe.

Definitions vary, but democracies have constitutions protecting citizens rights, civil liberties, rule of law, equality before the law, and other rights.

What civil liberties for god sake we are watched all day spied on, told to inform on each other, what a lot of New labour crap.

Laws must be enacted to balance the countries «need to know» to keep societies safe on the one hand, and accountable and transparent guarantee of civil liberties for all, at all times and under all circumstances, on the other hand.

Civil liberties advocates feared that an I.D. card program open to those lacking other kinds of paperwork could, if seized by unsympathetic federal authorities, become a deportation database.

I am sure there are some Labour politicians who are sound on civil liberties, as there are also in the other parties, but given the record of Labour in government and the record of Tories in opposition (oh, how they cared back then) the evidence is emphatic: the state can not be trusted, and the politicians are either incapable or unwilling to control or restrain the state machinery.

Now other parties must support Liberal Democrat efforts to protect the civil liberties of UK and European citizens through better - targeted laws with stricter safeguards on collection, storage, intercept and access to citizens» digital communications.

Overall, it seems to me that the LD defence of «achieving what we could with the power we had» is probably quite defensible on civil liberties, on green issues, on political reform; on libel reform, perhaps the EU for now, and perhaps other issues.

The UK may block an extradition on the basis of procedural grounds but not for any other reason, raising concerns from civil liberties campaigners.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the «erosion of civil liberties» by the then Labour government, and was re-elected on a civil liberties platform (although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties).

Many of the suggestions reflected Tory policy, such as immediate plans to cut the deficit or a cap on non-EU immigration, but others clearly showed a high degree of Lib Dem influence, notably over civil liberties, where a Great Repeal Bill has been promised.

And whilst it is welcome to have Liberal Democrat support on spending cuts and on certain civil liberties issues, and whilst we could well have compromised with the Liberal Democrats on a number of other issues, we didn't need a coalition and if a referendum on AV was the price of formal coalition we should never have agreed to it.

In addition to the presumptive mayoral hopefuls, the raiding of Zuccotti was slammed by numerous other elected officials and civil liberties advocates.

Grandchildren manage the scene, how ask to if you are interested, go out decent tool to set the Civil liberties union and national institute of public health at the expense of some other.

Her work had not focused on race relations or civil liberties or any of the other hot buttons of the day.

The orthodox way in its analysis has a method of protecting either national security, or civil liberties, as if the protection of one undermines the protection of the other.

By pardoning Arpaio, Trump gives rogue cops and police departments the carte blanche to engage in criminal abuse of immigrants as well as blessed all kinds of police brutality and other violations of civil liberties of all Americans.

However, an agency's ease of enforcement should never be given precedence over the protection of an American's right to privacy or any other civil liberty.

Other works by Sophie Calle and Carey Young examine the boundaries of repression versus freedom, and censorship versus civil liberties.

Freedom to drive really really really fast with the deliberate intention of hurting others is not a political liberty, nor even a civil liberty.

As Justice Stratas put it to the attendees, should Canada ever be gripped by some form of threat or disorder, leading the government to abridge the civil liberties of many Canadians, do we want the judge deciding the constitutionality of the government's action to be able to turn to a body of constitutional law «based on fundamental principles, consistently applied over decades» — in other words, «settled legal doctrine» — or do we want the judge deciding the issue based upon «her or his own worldview?»

Freedom of the press, the right to know and other aspects of civil liberties are being eroded by the courts imposing super injunctions.

And finally, D'Arcy Jenish writes about the October Crisis of 1970 in Legion Magazine (September, 2010) that «Tommy Douglas, leader of the federal New Democratic Party, accused Trudeau of using «a sledgehammer to crack a peanut,» and as well «A quarter of a century later, in a memoir published in 1996, longtime Conservative aide and adviser Hugh Segal wrote that «Civil liberties, including the right to free assembly, the right to free speech and other fundamental rights (were) suspended across the land.

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In October, CCLA joined with nine other domestic civil liberties and human rights organizations from around the world to release a report, «Take back the streets»: Repression and criminalization of protest around the world.

English Pen, Big Brother Watch and other civil liberties campaigners brought the action following revelations about GCHQ's collection of internet data from millions of people not under any suspicion.

Each year our attorneys provide hundreds of hours of pro bono legal representation for dozens of nonprofit organizations on environmental, civil liberties and other issues.

We assent fully to all that is said in the opinion of the inestimable value of the trial by jury, and of the other constitutional safeguards of civil liberty.

Dozens of other technology, media and civil liberties groups filed briefs supporting Microsoft last month, and the case is pending.