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...Coulter’s dismissal did not curb her hate mongering; instead it seemed to radicalize her already pernicious ideology. In an Oct. 5 column entitled, “Don’t Just Profile. Deport,” Coulter brazenly advocates cleansing American soil of Muslims, arguing that, since the government could not feasibly “perform a thorough investigation of a million Muslim immigrants, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them.” Coulter’s appeal for ethnic cleansing has elicited widespread condemnation from fellow commentators. New York Times columnist...
...been to get "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime." Now the Prime Minister is getting tough on terrorism too. In his speech to the Labour Party conference last week, he announced tighter antiterrorism legislation, which will strengthen powers to freeze terrorist funds and to detain, deport and extradite suspects. Such proposals have concerned the civil libertarians who felt the new Terrorism Act, unveiled in February, already went...
...terrorist networks before they can strike again. He also needs to head off resistance from people across the political spectrum who think the Justice Department already has all the power it needs. The things that Ashcroft wants--expanded power to tap phones, sift through e-mail and detain or deport foreigners--don't just offend the A.C.L.U. Cynicism about government power is now the folk culture of the American right. In Congress, one of the first members to question Ashcroft's plans was Georgia's state-of-the-art conservative Representative Bob Barr. "We cannot and must not," he said...
Civil libertarians are also worried about Ashcroft's proposal to let the government deport foreigners if they give aid to any group that has any association with terrorist acts. The legislation would even be retroactive. Could an immigrant who gave money to an antiabortion organization five years ago, for example, be deported if it is shown now that the organization once threatened to endanger an abortion clinic? "These new powers violate core principles of due process and associational freedoms," says David Cole, a lawyer at Georgetown University Law Center...
...resources. "He considers himself a citizen of the world, inconvenienced by the laws of nations," says Howard Safir, the former New York City police commissioner who, as head of operations for the U.S. Marshals Service in the '80s, tried unsuccessfully to lure Rich to a country that would deport...