[Occupymendocino] Will US Civil Liberties Survive the Occupy Trial?

[Mark Safron]

Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement fill Zuccotti Park in New York. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images
The US constitution's Bill of Rights is envied by much of the English-speaking world, even by people otherwise not enthralled by The American Way Of Life. Its fundamental liberties – freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom from warrantless search – are a mighty bulwark against overweening state power, to be sure.

But what are these rights actually worth in the United States these days?


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/13/cecily-mcmillan-occupy-trial-civil-liberties

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