American Civil Liberties Union

User Liberties/Rights Assessment USCENTCOM and ultimately the 160th Signal Brigade is responsible for maintaining communications in a very dynamic and high risk environment. The mission is to maintain our human rights and defend against terrorism. This mission needs to transfer to defending rights on in cyberspace. Policies confronting challenges of preserving core rights and liberties is part of the commitment. Safeguarding these vital rights and fundamental freedoms and privileges is…

because it is authoritarianism. Instead, people should consider other factors such as, which in this case, corruption. Furthermore, some argue that the advantages of authoritarianism to economic growth are not worth sacrificing human rights and civil liberties of the citizens. However, they need to think about what the poor countries consider as their priority. Economic growth and economic freedom are antithetic concepts. At the early stages of economic development, achieving both the growth…

Would the American people be willing to give up their privacy, freedom, happiness, and decision making in exchange for government protection? In America, this is slowly becoming a reality when regarding the right to privacy. For many years, the government has been steadily stripping the right to privacy from Americans piece by piece. This violation is only creating greater problems. The United States government and its agencies have been illegally collecting the private and personal information…

In 1964, one short year after JFK’s assassination, Barry Goldwater ran for President of the United States against Lyndon B. Johnson. Goldwater lost in landslide, coming up short in one of the most lopsided presidential races in American history. At this point, Ronald Reagan was a b-list actor turned tv star, and although Barry Goldwater’s campaign was obviously unsuccessful, it did lead to Ronald Reagan’s monumental “A Time for Choosing” speech and the start of Reagan’s wildly successful…

The issue of invasion of privacy, especially in the different methods employed to ensure safety, affect innocent people and are sometimes not even effective. This issue is addressed in “Trading Liberty” by Wendy Kaminer, which was published in The Free Inquiry in 2002 after the 9/11 events. Kaminer, other than having written several books is also a lawyer. On the other hand, the issue is also acknowledge in the article, “If Looks Could Kill” written by The Economist, which is a weekly magazine…

Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (Deflem, McDonough, 2015). It makes a person wonder if the name came first, or if the desire to have something seem super patriotic was enough to create a title to fit with those letters. “The American public is skeptical of the Patriot Act. More than 180 governments have urged a rollback of its expansive powers.” (Jost, 2003 p.904). People question the act because it was created so quickly which caused it to be made without the…

between civil rights and civil liberties, but it is easy for one to become confused on which is which and what exactly each means. Civil rights are basically the general rights of people to be free from unequal and unfair treatment based on things such as gender, race, ethnicity, disability, etc., whereas civil liberties are more general freedoms and rights that are guaranteed, as they are written in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, or that have been established by the court system. Civil…

Civil liberties are defenses against government actions. It is a right that is guaranteed by the laws. An example of civil liberties is everyone has the right to practice whatever religion they would like. The government would not be able to restrict with the decision a citizen makes about their religion. A civil right is a right of an individual to obtain equal treatment in a number of scenarios. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, the right to vote, and the right to be treated…

perhaps the most famous of the papers and is written by James Madison. In the paper he labels factions as “groups of people who gather together to protect and promote their special economic interests and political opinions” (Primary Documents in American History). Sometimes these factions…

Should incarceration mean the eradication of basic civil liberties granted to every citizen of the United States under the Constitution? That answer should obviously be no, however in the United States penitentiary system the deprivation of the legal right to vote, also known as disenfranchisement, is quite common. So much so that as of 2006 it was estimated that 5.3 million people were declared ineligible to vote as a result of their conviction, 1.7 million of which have already completed their…