Reason's Cathy Young complains of post-9-11 "panic-mongers"

[Declan McCullagh]

http://www.reason.com/cy/cy040803.shtml

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Should we be on guard against sacrificing civil liberties to national 
security? Yes. But despite the panic-mongering, this is still America, and 
we still have checks and balances. Journalist Steven Brill, whose book 
After examines post- Sept. 11 America, notes in a Salon interview that 
judges and legislators, including Republicans, have curbed some of the 
excesses of John Ashcroft's Justice Department.
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Measures such as limiting terror suspects' communications with their 
lawyers in order to prevent potential terrorist acts are controversial, and 
rightly so. But they are a far cry from Stalinism.
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Yes, this is a different America than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. But it 
wasn't Ashcroft, President Bush, or the Republican Congress who conspired 
to rob us of our freedom; it was the terrorists.
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