Word: aclu
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...April the U. S. District Court dismissed a suit filed by the ACLU on behalf of 13 plaintiffs- individuals and organizations- who claimed that the surveillance, data banks, and blacklists violated the Bill of Rights by reason of the chilling effect which knowledge of their existence can have upon the willingness of citizens to exercise their freedom of speech, press, and association, and their rights to petition the government for redress of grievances...
...many existing dictatorships, however, the police function, while pervasive, is not undertaken by the Army. Recent disclosures such as Pyle's concerning the Army's intelligence operations in the "continental United States" raise serious questions about the Army's role in domestic politics. The judge who dismissed the ACLU suit claimed that Army maintenance of files was no different than maintenance of files by a newspaper. Frank Askin, arguing for the plaintiffs, observed that no newspaper also possessed weapons or other means of force to deploy against whoever was on file. The right of the Army to operate data banks...
Deutsch, who made his allegations primarily on the basis of ACLU interviews with witnesses of the shooting said that no one-Kent students and faculty included-has been permitted on the campus to gather evidence except for government investigators...
...guardsmen involved in the shooting have been isolated in an armory 30 miles from Kent where ACLU lawyers have not been allowed to interview them...
Danial Levinson, one of the ACLU lawyers working on the case, said the ACLU would try to show that the Commonwealth's prosecution attempts violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees the rights of speech and peaceful assembly...