Five Ways Bush's Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9/11

The following is an excerpt of Matthew Rothschild's "You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression"
(The New Press, 2007).

To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists. ... They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends.--
former attorney general John Ashcroft

You're either with us or against us. -- George W. Bush

Today's America is a much less free place than the America of 2000. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has, by word and by deed, erected an edifice of repression here in the United States.
We've been living in it ever since. And it's not a comfortable place.

1. The Ashcroft raids
2. Abuse of Material Witness Statute
3. Enemy combatants and "extraordinary renditions"
4. Watering down the Levi guidelines: A boon for domestic spying
5. Listening in on lawyer-prisoner conversations

In his new book, Matt Rothschild examines how the Bush White House constructed the edifice of repression to brazenly access our private data and shred the judicial process.

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