{"id":666,"date":"2002-09-05T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2002-09-06T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/05\/rights-we-used-to-have\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:12","slug":"rights-we-used-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/05\/rights-we-used-to-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights we used to have"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15911,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/wire\\\/sns-ap-sept-11-legal-rights-glance0905sep05.story&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/wire\\\/sns-ap-sept-11-legal-rights-glance0905sep05.story&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15912,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001103.php#001103&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120616162135\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001103.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:17:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 01:17:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Overview of Changes to Legal Rights<\/h2>\n<p>  By The Associated Press | September 5, 2002, 11:44 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>  Some of the fundamental changes to Americans&#8217; legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation.<\/li>\n<li>FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.<\/li>\n<li>FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.<\/li>\n<li>RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.<\/li>\n<li>FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans&#8217; papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.<\/li>\n<li>RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.<\/li>\n<li>RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Copyright &copy; 2002, The Associated Press\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-sept-11-legal-rights-glance0905sep05.story\" title=\"Newsday: Overview of Changes to Legal Rights\">Newsday<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/mt\/archives\/001103.php#001103\" title=\"WWDN: FYI\">Wil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the fundamental changes to Americans&#8217; legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}