Should the same rules apply in the US?
Prior to becoming President, Barack Obama was a civil liberties lawyer, causing many to believe that he would uphold the rule of law and rebuke the police-state policies of his predecessor, George W. Bush. However, with the Obama administration already having giving immunity to large telecom companies that spied on US citizens under Bush rule, his refusal to release all of the Bush-era torture docoments and Obama's embrace of Bush's Patriot Act, it is becoming increasingly clear that the new president has every intention of carrying on with many of the same unpopular policies of the former White House resident. (click image to watch video)
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[1] http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/6/twitter_crackdown_nyc_activist_arrested_for