{"id":2886,"date":"2004-10-17T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/17\/constitutional-rights-trump-terror-fears\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:40:06","slug":"constitutional-rights-trump-terror-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/17\/constitutional-rights-trump-terror-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional rights trump terror fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, some good news &#8212; for once, a court has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/LAW\/10\/16\/protesters.terrorism.ap\/index.html\" title=\"Terror fears don't trump Constitution, court rules\">upheld our Constitutional rights<\/a> over the current wave of paranoia over terrorism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Fears of a terrorist attack are not sufficient reason for authorities to search people at a protest, a federal appeals court has ruled, saying September 11, 2001, &#8220;cannot be the day liberty perished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Friday that protesters may not be required to pass through metal detectors when they gather next month for a rally against a U.S. training academy for Latin American soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>  Authorities began using the metal detectors at the annual School of the Americas protest after the terrorist attacks, but the court found that practice to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War of Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over,&#8221; Judge Gerald Tjoflat wrote for the three-member court. &#8220;September 11, 2001, already a day of immeasurable tragedy, cannot be the day liberty perished in this country.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/10\/17\/court_war_on_terror_.html\" title=\"War on Terror is no excuse to trample liberties\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, some good news &mdash; for once, a court has upheld our Constitutional rights over the current wave of paranoia over terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}