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

Not exact matches

(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.

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

Carl H. Esbeck, an emeritus law professor at the University of Missouri who gathered the National Association of Evangelicals, the Assemblies of God, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, and other groups for an amici brief, believes that «specific religious - liberty protections» will be needed for churches, religious believers, and religious organizations.

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.

Yet the groups pushing the RFRA want to enact that test into law and leave its interpretation and application to those same «officers of the government» who have thus far shown no preference for religious liberty.

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.

«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.

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:

«The personal liberty and autonomy of research contrasts with a much more routine working life in clinical medicine,» agrees Marcus Möller, who leads a research group in the Institute of Anatomy at Heidelberg University.

Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, is set to be deposed today by lawyers for a group of 21 young plaintiffs, aged 9 to 20, who filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty, and property by not taking action to halt global warming.

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

Allowing equal rights to «life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness» to all groups of people, does nothing to diminish the rights of those who already have those privileges.