picking things it gets involved in as well as some of the cases themselves. the idea here is to have a free-wheeling discussion that i will lead. no speeches or opening statements. i have been able to get in touch with all of them before hand and encouraging everyone to jump in, feel free to pickup on one another s comments. disagree or agree, bring up cases you think are important and remind us what those cases are about because we won t remember all the cases. so onward. brief bits of introductions here along with a question. he will have to forgive me for doing this to you all but i want to get everybody involved real quickly. anthony romero is executive director of the aclu. i didn t realize until i was reading your bio sins september of 2001, just before the attack on world trade center, when i talked with anthony the other day he said i am happy to do this but i don t want this to be a love fest. things that we have done wrong. here is your shot. there is a polarizing o
advocacy groups or by the courts. the judges in downtown l.a., who have been ruling on these rolling set of lawsuits that have been brought don t seem to have spent much time on skid row to actually see the efforts of the police there to try and convince people to get treatment, to take advantage of the services that are available to them and improve life for everybody. okay. now all of these issues deserve panels of their own, don t they? we have four students here. it s their school. i want to bring them in here. they can raise some of these. i ll start with you, akiel elaine? aleem. i ready that there has been some i read that there has been some controversy in the aclu ranks over the united decision. i also read that they filed a brief over the petition in that case before the supreme court. of course, that was that raised a lot of dander with critics of that decision. so, i was wondering whether the aclu s current position on government regulation of political
that some of these efforts have been counterproductive. if you go to court and ask for an answer, you may get locked into an answer you do not want. it is polarizing because there are really two different world views that are drifting further and further apart over whether the issues that engage the aclu and these important national- security measures where detention policy, rendition policy, all that stuff and even now when some of the domestic surveillance in ordinary law enforcement like the gps case and the strip search case we really start to live if we are living in a different era. it is not clearif the courts and american society are receptive when we move away from puny anonymity. a peace keeping group that offered to provide the nine assistants to a group that had been labeled as provide assistance to a group that had been labeled as a security threat. all that was involved was pure speech to help these guys solve their in differences peacefully. and bin proba
the this for a little over two years. somebody comes up and says, why do you depress me so much? i say i am just the messenger. i intend to be a better a better messenger this time. i am hoping the rest of this panel will be more optimistic than i just was. it is a very veteran view on this stage. next to me here is joyce chang from jp morgan, and here is vincent reinhart. last time he came to speak here he managed to invoke rebel without a cause. you better not let us down. we want the follow up. just a couple of housekeeping points. remember to turn things that go bleep off. i think we have c-span here so we care a lot about the sound system today. this is on the record. keep that in mind. let s start with the eurozone. it is still the most turbulent part of the global economy. they seem to have stabilized things. we had the announcement of a new firewall agreement. are we out of the acute phase of this crisis in europe? the acute phase of the crisis that i would de