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		<title>Muhammad Idrees Ahmad &#187; Civil Liberties</title>
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		<title>The Politics of Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/09/beijing-and-the-politics-of-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I am not talking about China. That is easy, and meaningless. I am not moved when some designer anarchist from California privileged enough to afford the ticket to Beijing makes a statement about &#8212; Tibet. As if things were hunky dory back home; as if being a Brit or an American grants one the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2392&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dubya is&#8230;The Dark Knight!</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/07/30/dubya-isthe-dark-knight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I am not the only one drawing this analogy. It appears the Murdoch press has also seen the parallels. Andrew Klavan tells readers of the Wall Street Journal &#8216;What Bush and Batman Have in Common&#8216;. (via TruthDig) A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2275&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the New FISA</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/07/11/stop-the-new-fisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Allowing the new surveillance law to stand would seriously cripple our free press,&#8217; writes Chris Hedges. If the sweeping surveillance law signed by President Bush on Thursday — giving the U.S. government nearly unchecked authority to eavesdrop on the phone calls and e-mails of innocent Americans — is allowed to stand, we will have eroded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2085&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascism has returned to Italy, and Juan Cole shows, US is not very far behind. The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2083&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Left supports Right defending liberty</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/29/left-supports-right-defending-liberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Benn&#8217;s principled support for David Davis&#8217;s reelection. (thanks Tom) Libertarians from the Left and Right sometimes meet in the middle against an authoritarian state. In 1961, having served for 10 years as an MP for Bristol South East, I was declared disqualified because my father had been a peer and he had died. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2025&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Tony Benn shares a platform with Tory rebel David Davis in a debate about civil liberties</media:title>
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		<title>Fortress Britain</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/26/fortress-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variant, Issue 32, Summer 2008; Spinwatch, June 23, 2008; Scoop (New Zealand), June 25, 2008; UK Watch, June 25, 2008; Media Monitors Network, June 25, 2008; Dissident Voice, June 27, 2008 __________________________________ “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the Daily Mail late last year, because Scotland “is set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2004&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Liberty Fights Back?</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/13/lady-liberty-fights-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kucinich tries to impeach Bush on the 9th, the Supreme Court voted to restores the rule of law to Guantánamo on the 12th and today Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP as a stand against the government&#8217;s &#8220;assaults&#8221; on civil liberties.  Newton states that for every action there&#8217;s an equal and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1959&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkeys for Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/10/turkeys-for-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lo and behold! Gordon Brown, the man who has been forlornly playing the pipe still wet with Tony Blair&#8217;s spit, has failed to lure many vermin with his call for for more draconian legislation. So when finally a rat does come out, it bears a Muslim name. According to the Daily Telegraph, Brown&#8217;s call for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1942&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom under threat</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/26/freedom-under-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/26/freedom-under-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 23:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The arrest of a Nottingham University student for downloading an al-Qaida manual is an outrage and undermines the university&#8217;s academic integrity,&#8217; writes Ayesha Christie. On May 14, Rizwaan Sabir, a student of politics and Hicham Yezza, a former student currently employed at the University of Nottingham, were arrested under the Terrorism Act. Their crime? Sabir, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1851&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With friends like these . . .</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/04/23/with-friends-like-these-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Mamet, the writer behind Wag the Dog, is the latest to join the ranks of Arthur Koestler to Kinglsey Amis to Christopher Hitchens: people who have moved to the right and attacked former allies. Playwright David Edgar challenges the new generation of deserters (thanks Paulo). One striking aspect of the 1968 and post-1968 generation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1679&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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