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The Shredding of Our Fundamental Rights

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 17:40 — Dave Culver
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  • The Magna Carta - the charter of every self-respecting man - is being dismantled in front of our eyes.
  • Bill Moyers | Fighting Disclosure, Killing Democracy
  • Woody Guthrie’s Centennial
  • Anti-Tyranny Quotations for These Times

Noam Chomsky, AlterNet

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Author, historian and political commentator Noam Chomsky. (photo: Ben Rusk/flickr)

(19 July 2012) Recent events trace a threatening trajectory, sufficiently so that it may be worthwhile to look ahead a few generations to the millennium anniversary of one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights: the issuance of Magna Carta, the charter of English liberties imposed on King John in 1215.

What we do right now, or fail to do, will determine what kind of world will greet that anniversary. It is not an attractive prospect - not least because the Great Charter is being shredded before our eyes.

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