In Sacramento, a Publisher’s Questions Draw the Wrath of the Crowd: ‘… a commencement speaker (the publisher of the Sacramento Bee)

was booed off the stage for calling for the

protection of civil liberties in the

government’s response to terrorism. (…)

“It was scary,” said Bob Buckley, a computer sciences professor and

president of the faculty senate. “For the first time in my life, I can see how

something like the Japanese internment camps could happen in our country.” (…)

“We’ve always known that if you took the Bill of Rights to the street and

asked most people to sign it, you would be unable to get a majority of

Americans to do so,” said Ramona Ripston, executive director of the

American Civil Liberties Union chapter in Los Angeles.’ NY Times [via Adam]