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	Liberty (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liberty is the name of a number of places in the United States.
		Liberty, a periodical published from 1881 - 1908 by Benjamin Tucker.
		Liberty, a minor 1980s pop group that challenged Liberty X (originally also called Liberty) over the name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberty_(disambiguation) (274 words)

	Pressure Groups in America
		The differences between pressure groups and political parties are often hard to see, but generally, political parties nominate candidates for elective office, seek to win and then staff these offices, by appealing to the electorate.
		Pressure groups can be called to give evidence at Congressional hearings and give evidence to government departments on their specific area(s) of concern.
		Pressure groups should not be seen as rivals to political parties in America but the two groups do complement one another.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /pressure_groups_in_america.htm (1524 words)

	Liberty (pressure group) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom.
		Liberty was founded in 1934 and campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights.
		Liberty is a supporter of the no2id coalition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberty_(pressure_group) (296 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		pressure group pressure group, body, organized or unorganized, that actively seeks to promote its particular interests within a society by exerting pressure on public officials and agencies.
		The pressure in the arteries originates in the pumping action of the heart, and pressure waves can be felt at the wrist and at other points where arteries lie near the surface of the body (see pulse).
		vapor pressure vapor pressure, pressure exerted by a vapor that is in equilibrium with its liquid.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Liberty+(pressure+group) (589 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		That ideal is liberty for the individual, both politically and economically.
		...is under the aegis of the government of the United States, the defender of liberty and democracy.
		Liberty is the name of a number of places in the United States of America, it can refer to the concept of freedom, and it is a reference to an artistic style Stile Liberty, named after British shopkeeper Arthur Lasenby Liberty.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/concepts/Liberty (616 words)

	Liberty (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Liberty can refer to the concept of " (The condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints) freedom" or the more specific " (additional info and facts about political freedom) political freedom".
		Liberty is the name of a number of places in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States.
		Liberty, a minor (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s (A group that plays pop music) pop group that challenged (additional info and facts about Liberty X) Liberty X (originally also called Liberty) over the name.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/Liberty_(disambiguation).htm (684 words)

	Encyclopedia: Liberty (pressure group)
		A special interest is a person, group, or organization attempting to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of one particular interest or issue.
		Charity is a term in Christian theology (one of the three theological virtues), meaning loving kindness towards others; it is held to be the ultimate perfection of the human spirit, because it is said to both glorify and reflect the nature of God.
		Recently, Liberty acted for the whistleblower Katharine Gun who disclosed that the National Security Agency requested the British Government's help in illegal surveillance on the UN.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberty-(pressure-group) (668 words)

	Liberty (pressure group) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Liberty is a (A group of people who try actively to influence legislation) pressure group based in the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom.
		In 2003 the post of Liberty Director was taken up by (additional info and facts about Shami Chakrabarti) Shami Chakrabarti.
		Liberty is a supporter of the (additional info and facts about no2id) no2id coalition.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/Liberty_(pressure_group).htm (286 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		...ety of cultural prejudices, including the notion that the American love of liberty is a kind of haven from European paternalism.
		...this nation, is entitled to the equal protection of their rights to "life, liberty, and property" with due process of the law.
		unchecked by our courts, it will be exceedingly difficult for fundamental liberty to recover even when the current crisis has passed.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/read.php?offset=75&id=458&sortby= (590 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Liberty (freedom)
		Liberty (freedom), right of individuals to act as they choose.
		Liberty (pressure group), civil rights pressure group based in London, formerly known as the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), which seeks...
		In this selection from Chapter III of On Liberty, philosopher-economist John Stuart Mill defines liberty and individuality and discusses their...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Liberty_(freedom).html (94 words)

	Pressure Group Archives at the University of Hull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Many collections include files on, or specimens from, other pressure groups, a good example being a file on the Housewives' League to be found within the archive of Liberty.
		Equally, the archives of Members of Parliament (of which Hull has many) often contain numerous files relating to those pressure groups with which they were (or are) connected, or which have been active in trying to influence them.
		Also, the term 'pressure group' is used quite loosely, and is taken to include all those organisations represented in the archives which at one stage or another have organised campaigns either in relation to one or more issues or on behalf of their membership.
	www.hull.ac.uk /oldlib/archives/pressure/contents.html (366 words)

	M - Appendix B: Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
		The group split from the Moro National Liberation Front in the early 1990s under the leadership of Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, who was killed in a clash with Philippine police on 18 December 1998.
		Lashkar I Jhangvi (LJ) is the militant offshoot of the Sunni sectarian group Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP).
		The group focuses primarily on anti-Shia attacks and was banned by Pakistani President Musharraf in August 2001 as part of an effort to rein in sectarian violence.
	www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19991.htm (10013 words)

	Civil Contingencies Bill Gives UK Government Dictatorial Powers
		Committee chairman Lewis Moonie said his main concern was over human liberty and rights because the terms used in the bill were "too vague".
		Pressure group Liberty said the definition of an emergency was "extraordinarily wide", was open to potential abuse by unscrupulous governments and did not safeguard human rights challenges.
		Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty's director, told BBC Breakfast: "We're looking for a much more focused definition of what is a public emergency.
	www.propagandamatrix.com /070104dictatorialpowers.html (727 words)

	Prison Planet.com: Do You Have the Knowledge to Escape? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Human-rights pressure group Liberty is heading a court action against the powers.
		The Home Office has refused to provide MPs with the number of those arrested who have then been charged, saying it could only be calculated at "disproportionate cost".
		Liberty claims the lack of information is proof that the Government is trying to hide an almost complete lack of arrests under the powers.
	www.prisonplanet.com /111103stopandsearch.html (412 words)

	Charter 88 is a pressure group which wishes to develop and expand democracy
		Charter 88 is a pressure group which wishes to develop and expand democracy.
		Please research this pressure group and produce an essay which discusses its aims and methods.
		I feel we do need pressure groups like Charter 88, to monitor and challenge the main political parties, which would help to ensure a democratic society.
	www.peterjepson.com /law/ashley%20geeves.htm (1045 words)

	Pierre Lemieux, The Economics of Smoking: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Regarding the 1992 EPA report that classified secondhand tobacco smoke as a "Group A carcinogen," U.S. District Judge William Osteen wrote, in a recent decision: "The court is faced with the ugly possibility that EPA adopted a methodology for each chapter, without explanation, based on the outcome sought in that chapter.
		Public policy is more an outcome of pressure group politics and bureaucratic incentives than a product of enlightened welfare economists.
		The cuneiform inscription in the logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
	www.econlib.org /library/Features/feature5.html (2788 words)

	Winning the argument on ID cards \| Samizdata.net
		Trying to out-argue this without reference to liberty is as daft as trying to argue against murder on the principle that all the blood will ruin the rug.
		And there is no way to argue liberty is good except to argue is is an individual good, and hence that the individuals rights must trump the state's.
		The arguement from liberty aside, the major flaw of ID cards are that as usual they hurt the law-abiding and do not catch the law breaker.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/002667.html (2682 words)

	Pressure Group Archives at the University of Hull
		Liberty is one of Britain's oldest and consistently successful pressure groups.
		Its origins were set against the background of mass unemployment, hunger marches, the rise of Fascism, and the increasing use of anti-democratic methods by sections of local and national government in the early 1930s.
		A particular cause for concern and the initial focal point was the apparent use by the police of agents provocateurs to incite violence during meetings of hunger marchers upon their arrival in London.
	www.hull.ac.uk /oldlib/archives/pressure/liberty.html (698 words)

	Muslim Extremists Pressure Egyptian Christians to Convert to Islam
		Christian religious liberty pressure group, the Jubilee Campaign, has obtained evidence of some of the tactics used by fundamentalists to convert Christians.
		Due to this pressure, Mary agreed to cover her head with the Islamic women's head-dress, the "hijab".
		For this reason, if a woman is raped by a man in Egypt, she would come under much pressure to marry the man, as her only chance of ever getting married and to avoid bringing shame to her family.
	www.jubileecampaign.co.uk /world/egy13.htm (1412 words)

	The history of pressure groups is a long one. Before the term "pressure group" existed, there was The Society For ...
		The history of pressure groups is a long one.
		Before the term "pressure group" existed, there was The Society For Effecting The Abolition of the Slave Trade.
		Coursework and Essays: By Subject: Business Studies: The history of pressure groups is a long one.
	www.coursework.info /i/35426.html (679 words)

	Independent News Portal - Currents of Awareness : Protesters as Criminals
		Staff at the university were meeting people from BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Shell, the Carlyle Group, GlaxoSmithKline, DuPont, Unilever and Diageo, to learn how to "commercialise university research".(3) The students were hoping to persuade the researchers not to sell their work.
		The pressure group Liberty, the Green Party, a couple of alternative comedians, the Indymedia network and the alternative magazine Schnews have been left to defend our civil liberties almost unassisted.
		As the parliamentary opposition falls apart, the extra-parliamentary one is being closed down with hardly a rumble of protest from the huffers and puffers who insist that civil liberties are Britain's gift to the world.
	coanews.org /tiki-read_article.php?articleId=359 (1161 words)

	White Rose • In defence of little Miss Trouble-Maker
		A group of peace protesters has launched legal proceedings against Gloucestershire police, claiming they used anti-terrorism laws to prevent demonstrations against the war in Iraq.
		The pressure group Liberty is calling for an inquiry into the use of section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 at the base.
		One of the people the group says was stopped under the Terrorism act was 11-year-old Isabelle Ellis-Cockcroft, whose father David Cockcroft is taking legal action claiming a breach of human rights.
	whiterose.samizdata.net /archives/003979.html (471 words)

	Quran to be banned in the UK?--Ummah.comGeneral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		In Schedule 10 of the bill, Religious Hatred is defined as “hatred against a group of persons defined by reference to religious belief or lack of religious belief”.
		The pressure group Liberty has rightly pointed out that the “broad criminalisation of religious hate speech is far more dangerous to freedom of conscience and expression”.
		Liberty has warned that the new law will be directly used against Muslims rather than protecting them: “We are particularly concerned that Home Secretary has publicly stated a desire to target and prioritise certain Islamic clerics for prosecution once the proposed extension of the law is passed”.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=49577 (1212 words)

	French pressure group claims Internet strike was success - Webact!ve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		A pressure group demanding that France Telecom cuts its access rates said that its second strike, held on Sunday, made a significant impact on Internet use in France that day.
		The pressure group, dubbed The Association of Unhappy Internauts, claims that the number of people participating in net chat groups dropped between eight and 62 per cent during the 24 hour strike.
		It was the second strike called by the pressure group in a bid to get France Telecom to cut its call rates.
	www.webactivemagazine.co.uk /news/74417 (418 words)

	Enigma Journal: An investigation into the Bilderberg Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		As David Icke says, it is relatively easy for a small group of people to control the masses when everyday we give our power and freedom away, fearing to step out from the comfort of our 'hassle free zone'.
		It was at the Majestic Hotel in Paris in 1919 that the Round Table Groups of the United States and Britain emerged out from under a cloak of secrecy and officially became the (American) Council on Foreign Relations and the (British) Royal Institute for International Affairs.
		Muller was surprised to learn from me that the State Department acknowledged in a letter to Liberty Lobby that department officials Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Winston Lord attended a Bilderberg Conference at government expense in their official capacities.
	www.cropcircleresearch.com /enigma/issue16/bilderberg.html (3606 words)

	Concerned Women for America - GOP Chairman Racicot Defends Meeting with ‘Gay’ Pressure Group
		Asked why GOP officials did not come to the support of Sen. Rick Santorum when he was under attack for defending the Texas sodomy law, Racicot said, “We did, in fact, talk to reporters.” He offered to bring to the meeting the staffer who handled the calls.
		You want a law that says you can dismiss someone solely on the basis of homosexuality.” Various members of the group said no, they did not want to add laws targeting homosexuals or anyone else, but felt that special rights should not be carved out based on sexual behavior.
		HRC and groups like GLSEN want children as young as kindergarten to be taught that homosexuality is normal and healthy, despite well-documented medical evidence.
	cwfa.org /articledisplay.asp?id=3903&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport (1510 words)

	North Carolina and the American Revolution
		The Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts drew the growing radical element's ire in particular and led to the emergence of a Sons of Liberty group.
		Pressure was exerted on colonial officials in the colony, which forced them to abandon efforts to implement the Stamp Act; only the royal governor held firm and attempted to enforce the law.
		North Carolina responded to the Tea Act of 1773 by creating and enforcing nonimportation agreements that forced merchants to drop trade with Britain.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h631.html (405 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		But Begg claims his son has been mistreated, and along with the families of other British detainees is pressing for their return to Britain to face trial at home.
		And yesterday they, along with lawyers and campaigners, launched a new pressure group in a bid to secure the repatriation of all Guantanamo Bay's European detainees.
		Ghayasuddin Siddiqui is a prominent figure in Britain's Muslim community involved in the new group.
	www.globalsecurity.org /security/library/news/2004/01/sec-040121-rferl01.htm (852 words)

	The Militant - September 25, 2000 -- UK: 'anti—child abuse crusade' targets rights
		Anthony Butler, chief constable of Gloucestershire and spokesperson on child protection issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said, "We have made a major step forward in the objective of improving the safety of children.
		The paper did so in face of opposition from capitalist political figures and other big-business media who at the same time favor further strengthening of antidemocratic laws and the police.
		John Wadham, legal director of a civil liberties pressure group, Liberty, called for the national register to be trimmed in the face of the new Human Rights Act, which reportedly incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into British law from October 2.
	www.themilitant.com /2000/6436/643651.html (1115 words)

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