Concordia College

James E. Leahy Freedom Lecture

Oct 17, 2008


FOR MORE INFORMATION:           
JACKI KNAPP-RAAEN, F/M Communiversity coordinator
(218) 299-3438
AMY KELLY, Media Relations director
(218) 299-3642

F/M COMMUNIVERSITY PRESENTS ANNUAL JAMES E. LEAHY
FREEDOM LECTURE

    F/M Communiversity presents the 13th Annual James E. Leahy Freedom Lecture featuring Kate Martin, "Civil Liberties and ‘National Security’ — The Struggle to Preserve Constitutional Rights in a Time of War," at 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 25 in Christiansen Recital Hall, Hvidsten Hall of Music, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. The lecture is free and open to the public
    The Founding Fathers recognized that – after the shame of slavery – claims of national security would always pose the greatest danger to individual liberties. From the enactment of the Alien and Sedition Acts to the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans and the FBI's blackmail of Dr. Martin Luther King, this has proved to be true time and time again. This lecture will examine modern day threats to liberty and constitutional government in the name of the administration's "war on terror," efforts to protect constitutional rights and what we might expect or hope for from the next administration and Congress.
    Kate Martin is currently the director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, D.C.

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