9/11 Commission's Recommendations: Balancing Civil Liberties and Security : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, June 6, 2006, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007 - 166 pages |
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Page 143 - These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Article 30— Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Page 143 - to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read, and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without...
Page 136 - ... their pleasure, and their blood. And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But, besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible...
Page 3 - The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States criticized the provision of United States assistance to Afghanistan for being too inflexible.
Page 143 - We will accept only a world consecrated to freedom of speech and expression— freedom of every person to worship God in his own way— freedom from want— and freedom from terrorism.
Page 9 - House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations Committee on Government Reform US House of Representatives Hearing on "Nuclear Security: Has the NRC Strengthened Facility Standards Since 9/11?
Page 115 - This shift of power and authority to the government calls for an enhanced system of checks and balances to protect the precious liberties that are vital to our way of life.
Page 35 - Testimony Before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives...
Page 61 - Most importantly, we are grateful that we have received tremendous support from all levels of the White House staff, the Executive Office of the President, and the Federal departments and agencies with whom we will continue to work.
Page 151 - Be it remembered," says the author, ''that liberty must, at all hazards, be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator...