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Stating that the USA PATRIOT Act has limited and even eliminated certain civil liberties, the council renewed its commitment to freedom of speech, assembly and privacy...
Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, another co-sponsor of the resolution, said that the resolution sent a good signal but did little to actually prevent abridgement of civil liberties under the USA PATRIOT...
Decker said the people with “real courage” were the members of Congress who voted against the USA PATRIOT Act, including Democratic U.S. House members Michael E. Capuano, Barney Frank ’61-’62, James P. McGovern, John W. Olver and John F. Tierney...
...Galluccio added that city council had no legal authority to avoid participation in the USA PATRIOT...
...provides vivid historical and social details - some drawn from KGB files - that flesh out the story of an independent thinker in science and politics alike. Descended from a long line of Russian Orthodox priests, Sakharov was born, writes Lourie, into a family that valued "Russian and European culture, Christianity, patriotism, hard work, high ideals, modesty, courtesy, a quiet but implacable independence." At 12, he was taken by his teacher-scientist father to a laboratory and shown, in Sakharov's words, "dazzling miracles, but miracles I could understand." Sakharov loved what classical physics taught him: observation, logic, experimentation and doubt...