Detroit and Portland OR will become battlegrounds in the War on Terrorism, as the ACLU files joint lawsuits in hopes of having key sections of the USA PATROIT Act declared unconstitutional. According to Oregon’s Statesman Journal, “The lawsuit will seek to overturn Section 215, which allows the FBI broader access to personal records under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”The article continues, ”The lawsuit, to be filed in Detroit by the ACLU, the Council on Arab-Islamic Relations, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and several other groups, seeks to overturn provisions that allow the government wide latitude to seize records, books and papers in investigations of international terrorism, said Mo Abdrabboh, a Dearborn, Mich., lawyer who is on the ACLU’s at-large board.
“The area’s large Arab-American community is a major reason for filing the lawsuit in Detroit, he said.
“[…] ‘I want to see awareness out of this,’ said Abed Ayoub, president of the Detroit chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, one of several civil rights groups partnering in the legal challenge.
“Ayoub said he hopes the lawsuits would result in ‘a sense of relief, a sense that somebody is standing up for our rights.’”
