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Freedom is now on the march—a march that no longer requires metal detectors. In a unanimous decision issued last Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that city officials in Columbus, Ga. may not require demonstrators gathering for the annual School of the Americas Protest to pass through metal detectors in order to participate. We wholeheartedly endorse the decision and applaud the court for protecting Americans’ guaranteed liberties against the omnipresent specter of security...
...School of the Americas Protest, held peaceably every year since 1990, draws about 15,000 demonstrators annually to Fort Benning to protest the Western Hemisphere Institute for Social Cooperation, a military training camp for Latin American soldiers. Dubbed the “School of the Assassins” by its opponents, the camp has schooled soldiers in counterinsurgency, interrogation tactics and other military techniques...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, speaking at a protest organized by student gay rights activists Friday afternoon, called on his colleagues to file a lawsuit against the Pentagon to block military recruiters from forcing their way onto Harvard’s campus...
This elicited a Mount St. Helens protest from Democrats. "It is completely inappropriate and dangerous," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, "for the Vice President to in effect threaten the American people, to be part of instilling fear into our country." John Edwards declared that "Dick Cheney's scare tactics crossed the line" because "protecting America from vicious terrorists" is not a partisan issue...
Going Upriver takes the opposite route to the same desired destination, praising presidential challenger John Kerry’s service in the Vietnam War and his outspoken protest upon his stateside return. The film casts no aspersions about its political leanings, as the official synopsis consciously emphasizes Kerry’s bravery, courage, and eloquence. Nonetheless, it has been extolled for its honest overall assessment of the Vietnam era; the Chicago Tribune praised the film as “measured, calm, well-researched and thoughtful...