City Of Eugene Apparently Has A "Club"
While skimming this week’s EW, I noticed a mention of UO lawprof Garrett Epps’ address to the City Club of Eugene, full text here in PDF. I wanted to read the whole thing to see if it actually backed up the EW‘s summary:
…peacetime brings reconciliation and apologies for such abuses, but the Bush/Ashcroft excesses may be the worst Bill of Rights abuses in US history.
Mmph. This in a paragraph that also mentions Lincoln suspending habeas corpus, and the Japanese-American internment camps in WW2.
Folks, I think I can fairly say that there’s a consensus against PATRIOT on this site, as there is virtually everywhere else in the 9740* zipcodes. (And in Epps’ speech, which doesn’t make the above claim.) But let’s keep things in perspective, please. (Unless the fingerprints they collected from me at the airport get misfiled and I find myself attorneyless in a dark hole somewhere. Then I’ll be yelling about internment camps at the top of my lungs, not that anyone’ll listen.)
(While I’m on the subject, if you like books that feature religious arguments and the Frohn as a character, Epps’ To An Unknown God may be just the thing for you.)
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