Guant\u00e1namo, krigen mod terror og krigen mod narkotika er bare \u00e9n side af sagen. De amerikanske myndigheders magt er blevet stadigt udvidet p\u00e5 stort set alle omr\u00e5der gennem de sidste \u00e5r, ogs\u00e5 ned i det helt sm\u00e5:<\/p>\n
The American legal system also seems to have lost any sense of proportion. Christopher Ratte, a professor of archaeology, recently tried to buy his seven-year-old son a bottle of lemonade at a baseball game. He was handed a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, an alcoholic drink, by mistake. Officials noticed the boy sipping the drink and immediately whisked him off to hospital. He was fine. But the family was condemned to legal hell: the police at first put the seven-year-old into a foster home and a judge ruled that he could go home only if his father moved out. It took several days of legal wrangling to reunite the family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dette er fra The Economists omtale<\/a> af Freedomhouses nye rapport<\/a> om frihed i Amerika. Konklusionen er, at Freedomhouse om noget er for optimistisk med henblik p\u00e5 systemets evne til at rette sig selv. En kort opsummering af rapporten kan l\u00e6ses her<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guant\u00e1namo, krigen mod terror og krigen mod narkotika er bare \u00e9n side af sagen. De amerikanske myndigheders magt er blevet stadigt udvidet p\u00e5 stort set alle omr\u00e5der gennem de sidste \u00e5r, ogs\u00e5 ned i det helt sm\u00e5: The American legal system also seems to have lost any sense of proportion. Christopher Ratte, a professor of … L\u00e6s mere Ikke frie nok<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[114,256,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}