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Monday, September 08, 2003
The redcoats are coming! The
redcoats are coming! Attorney General John Ashcroft will be
speaking to an audience of mainly law-enforcement officials tomorrow
at 9:20 a.m. in Faneuil Hall.
Once, patriots gathered inside
Faneuil Hall to plot against oppression. Now, Ashcroft is coming to
town to rally for the Patriot Act, the very definition of latter-day
oppression.
A coalition of civil-liberties
groups will protest outside the hall starting at 8 a.m. Here is the
lead paragraph of an ACLU press release:
On Tuesday, September 9,
beginning at 8 a.m., hundreds of people from across the
Commonwealth will gather in Sam Adams plaza outside Boston's
historic Faneuil Hall to voice their concerns about Attorney
General John Ashcroft's assault on basic constitutional freedoms
in the name of fighting terrorism. The rally will include a press
conference at 8:30 a.m. near the Sam Adams Statue.
Here is an
ACLU fact sheet on how the
Patriot Act threatens your personal liberties.
You know what to do.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
