Attack on Civil Liberties by DC Police

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BlankPreemptive Arrests Mark Unprecedented Attack on Civil Liberties by DC
Police

WASHINGTON, DC - In a stunning breach of nonviolent protesters’
constitutional right to assemble, the DC Metropolitan Police detained and
arrested 649 people during Friday’s People’s Strike, many of them legal
observers, medics, and members of the press and general public. These
illegal, pre-emptive arrests represent an ominous attack on civil liberties
at the same time the Bush Administration is using the so-called War on
Terror to justify a preemptive war on Iraq, says the DC Anti-Capitalist
Convergence, organizer of the People’s Strike.

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