ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Civil Liberties

The war at home
Source: DrugSense/Vanity Fair
Author: Gore Vidal
Country: United States

"The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism." (1998)

Clinton years gave birth to a left-right civil liberties coalition
Source: American Prospect
Author: Nicholas Confessore
Country: United States

Clinton's years in office brought the civil-liberties left and the antigovernment right together. That coalition has remained intact to fight the excesses of the "war on terrorism." (10/01)

Stanford Prison Experiment
Source: Stanford University
Author: Philip G. Zimbardo
Country: United States

A simulation study of the psychology of imprisonment conducted at Stanford University; a study of human nature and submission to authority

A risk-based airport security policy
Source: RPPI
Author: Robert J Poole Jr and George Passantino
Country: United States

Report documenting the fallacious presumption underlying current federal airport screening policies, and presenting a risk-based model as more appropriate. (PDF file) (5/03)

Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism?
Source: Reason
Country: United States

"If the first casualty of war is the truth, the second casualty is often the liberty of law-abiding citizens." Commentators from across the political spectrum sound off on the fate of liberty. (12/01)

Shredding the Bill of Rights
Source: Vanity Fair
Author: Gore Vidal
Country: United States

"Most Americans of a certain age can recall exactly where they were and what they were doing on October 20, 1964, when word came that Herbert Hoover was dead. The heart and mind of a nation stopped. Bue how many recall when and how they first became aware that one or another of the Bill of Rights had expired?" (1998)

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