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Legal and illegal migration triggers far-right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.
The pressure on African governments to enact legislation against terrorism may pose new threats to civil liberties at the very moment when democratization is gathering momentum.
In The Anatomy of Fascism, Columbia University historian Robert O. Paxton writes that:“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
I am not endorsing leniency for looters and thugs; but we already know where the raft of punitive legislation that Cameron is proposing, and his efforts to exploit civil unrest to clamp down on civil liberties, would lead the country.
The scientists, writers, and anti-censorship activists who led the campaign were assisted in Parliament by Lord Lester, a well-known British civil liberties lawyer, who introduced a Private Members’ Bill in 2010, and eventually by endorsement of reform by all three major political parties.
NATO Means SolidarityPRAGUE: We have come a long way from those poetic, buoyant, and euphoric days that followed communism’s fall; those days of suddenly gained liberties, of enormous and often quite naive hopes.
Under “the moribund,” as the Constitution came to be known, Venezuela not only had eight peaceful presidential transitions, but also enjoyed the fruits of democratic pluralism and strong civil and political liberties.
The letter accuses the government, controlled by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, of restricting civil liberties and undermining the judiciary.
There is always a delicate balance, to be sure, between commonly held views and individual liberties.
The big castes – from the supposedly Frankish Nobles of the Sword and Nobles of the Robe to proto-bourgeois merchants and Gallo-Roman villeins – all conferred upon their members small liberties and a measure of personal autonomy in exchange for obligations to the state.
In this new setting, no privileges or liberties would protect you if you failed to find a counterparty in the market, or ran afoul of the tyranny of the majority, or simply sought some form of direction as you tried to decide who you were supposed to be.
In Tocqueville’s imagination, at least, the old order’s subjects had been eager to protect their particular liberties and jealous of their spheres of independence.
Institutions like Human Rights Watch have repeatedly denounced the government’s rights violations and restrictions on civil liberties.
They talk about Western liberties, including freedom of speech, but Wilders wants to ban the Koran and the burqa, and a Danish member of parliament has called Islam “a plague upon Europe.”
Although he claims to oppose economic liberalism, he is a product of the political liberties that it promotes and feeds on the benefits generated by the market economy.
A state that emphasizes security over civil rights and liberties is easily hijacked by security agencies.
Human-rights groups criticized some of these measures as violations of civil liberties; but, for the most part, they were applied smoothly.
It means also that we are increasingly reluctant to allow our own vision of civil liberties and human rights to shape our foreign policies, owing to the potential commercial costs.
As a result, something remarkable for a former Soviet country informs the habits of those who are demanding that their liberties be preserved: a deep respect for the rule of law, which is the ultimate check on abuse of power.
But nothing guarantees free societies' liberties as much as the application of the rule of law with equal force to the governed and the governing.
Yet, by responding properly to their economic and political challenges, they all delivered poverty reduction, greater social justice, and expanded civil liberties.
Moreover, the social and political environment must be conducive to a high-tech labor force, providing an attractive quality of life, ensuring civil liberties, and supporting entrepreneurship and creativity.
Freedom House, a watchdog group that rates countries on a seven-point scale according to political rights and civil liberties, gave Singapore a grade of 4 in both categories.
But the more important issue, even before Russia granted him temporary asylum, is the status of American civil liberties.
It is tactically useful for Russia, China, and others to conflate espionage issues with civil liberties and accuse the US of hypocrisy.
In terms of civil liberties, examining the content of a message from a suspect non-American source is less controversial.
Rather than demonstrating hypocrisy and acceptance of the erosion of civil liberties, the Snowden disclosures have provoked a debate that suggests the US is living up to its democratic principles in its traditionally untidy ways.
The worst threats to liberties come when insecurity is greatest, so modest trade-offs can sometimes prevent greater losses.
Our Bodies or OurselvesWASHINGTON, DC – Technological developments in recent years have highlighted not only the benefits of big data, but also the need to come to terms with the dangers it poses to our privacy, civil liberties, and human rights.
Wars and revolutions may erupt, and values like human rights and civil liberties could be undermined.
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