This post by Macdonald Stainsby is absurd. Law enforcement officials have the right to temporarily restrict access to emergency scenes and crimes scenes. There are serious civil liberties infringements coming that we need to oppose. Hysterical claims are not useful.
-Chip Berlet
----- Original Message ----- From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby at tao.ca> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: Re: Legalities of a "State of Emergency"?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
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> > The Constitution never can be suspended by legislation, although many rights
> > not protected by the Constitution can be overriden.
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> They "suspended" it de facto as soon as all this happened. There was no way
that
> you could hold a demonstration in the far end of NY then. Correct?
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> Macdonald
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