<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div id="main-content-picture" itemscope="" itemprop="image" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><img width="460" height="276" alt="Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement fill Zuccotti Park in New York" itemprop="contentUrl representativeOfPage" data-pin-description="Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement fill Zuccotti Park in New York. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" apple-inline="yes" id="EEF5083C-BB4E-43A9-8EAF-54926D9874A4" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:6F702781-E23E-4177-9692-927939EBB0D6@att.net"><div class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement fill Zuccotti Park in New York. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images</div></div><div id="article-body-blocks" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">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.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">But what are these rights actually worth in the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/usa" title="More from the Guardian on United States" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">United States</a> these days?</p><div><br></div></div></div><div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/13/cecily-mcmillan-occupy-trial-civil-liberties">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/13/cecily-mcmillan-occupy-trial-civil-liberties</a></div><div><br></div></body></html>