{"article":{"id":28914,"heading":"Civil Liberties Under File In New York: Marching Permit Denied & NYPD OK'd For Spying","author":"New York Indymedia","created":"2003-02-14 03:39:18","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:33","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:48:33","article":"

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ANTI-WAR\r\n PROTEST<\/i><\/td>\r\n Feb\r\n 12 2003<\/i><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\nAppeals Court Again Denies Anti-War March Permit<\/b>
\r\nFrom the Associated Press<\/i>: A federal appeals court agreed Wednesday that\r\nthe city did not violate the First Amendment when it banned anti-war\r\ndemonstrators from marching near the United Nations next weekend.\r\n

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it could find no errors in a lower\r\ncourt judge's ruling earlier this week which found the city had acted legally\r\nwhen it permitted a stationary rally for 100,000 people or more but disallowed a\r\nmarch.\r\n<\/p>

Organizers of the rally, scheduled for Saturday, and their lawyers reacted\r\nwith disappointment. [Read\r\nMore]\r\n<\/p>

From the Open Newswire<\/i>: \"United for Peace now faces a moment of\r\ntruth. the powers that be have spoken-- a permit to march will not be granted by\r\nlegitimate authorities. At the end of the rally, what will you tell people to\r\ndo? ... Will you say: 'ladies and gentlemen. the rally has now ended. the city\r\nhas denied us a permit to march. we, however, do not accept this verdict. we\r\nmust make a stronger statement to protest this war. those who do not wish to\r\ncommit civil disobedience stay right where you are. the rest of us, we will now\r\nmarch.'\" [Read\r\nMore]
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DISSENT\r\n IN PERIL<\/i><\/td>\r\n Feb\r\n 12 2003<\/i><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\nFederal Judge Lets NYPD Relax Handschu<\/b>
\r\nTwo days after a federal appeals court agreed that the city could ban anti-war\r\ndemonstrators from marching near the United Nations, Federal Judge Charles\r\nHaight ruled today to accept a New York Police Department (NYPD) request to\r\nrelax restrictions on political surveillance in New York City. Since 1985, the\r\nHandschu Agreement has stipulated rules for police spying on political groups. Read\r\nCNN report.\r\n

Meanwhile, Gov. George Pataki yesterday forced an \"anti-terrorism\"\r\nbill through the New York State Senate. According to the New York Times<\/i>,\r\na hasty vote of 52 to 8 — which came \"without a public hearing or even\r\nthe normal three-day waiting period\" — would give local police and\r\nprosecutors broad new powers similar to those enjoyed by federal authorities.\r\nThe bill would also \" create several new felonies with stiff\r\nsentences.\" Read\r\nNYT coverage.\r\n<\/p>

And rounding out the local-state-federal 1-2-3 punch to New Yorkers' civil\r\nliberties, of course, is the Bush sequel to the PATRIOT Act, or as some are\r\ncalling it, PATRIOT Act II. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the\r\nproposed measures give the government \"broad, sweeping new powers to\r\nincrease domestic ... law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decreases\r\njudicial review and public access to information.\" Read\r\nFeb. 10 report\r\n<\/p>

But in light of reports that, \"All municipal and state laws that\r\nregulate police spying on domestic groups would become invalid\" under\r\nPATRIOT II, according to Democracy Now, one wonders why state and local\r\ngovernments are fighting so hard to pass their own extreme surveillance\r\nmeasures. What do\r\nyou think?\r\n<\/p>

Spying:\r\nNYPD Seeks to Free Itself From Handschu Restraints, from Oct. Indypendent<\/i>
\r\n[ Big\r\nBrother Arrives: from the Dec. Indypendent | Democracy\r\nNow coverage | FAIR:\r\nMuted Media Response to Ashcroft's Sneak Attack on Liberties ]<\/p>\r\n

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THE\r\n POLITICS OF FEAR<\/i><\/td>\r\n Feb\r\n 11 2003<\/i><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\nGrowing Anti-War Movement = Code Orange Alert<\/b>
\r\nFROM OUR OPEN PUBLISHING NEWSWIRE: \"Federal Judge Barbara S. Jones's ruling\r\nproves beyond a shadow of doubt that the high alert the White House put up last\r\nweek is strictly political. With the pen system that the NYPD used for the World\r\nEconomic Forum protests and also limiting the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza peace\r\ndemonstration to just 10,000 protesters the NYPD strategy is to string the\r\nprotest out in a long and narrow line (1 New York Street lane wide) so that\r\nthere will not be an opportunity for an image of hundreds of thousands of\r\nprotesters being seen in the domestic international media. Read\r\nMore
\r\n[ Police\r\nDogs on the 4-5-6 Train | Confronting\r\nthe Empire | Indymedia\r\nReaders Discuss Code Orange Alert ]\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Civil Liberties Under File In New York: Marching Permit Denied & NYPD Increased Spying Approved","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/02\/28914.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}