The 10 Worst Civil Liberties Violations of 2014 (Salon)

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The 10 Worst Civil Liberties Violations of 2014
It’s been an exceptionally awful year.

The world may not actually be falling apart—but it feels like America is. From police brutality and botched executions to voter suppression and election corruption, 2014 was a terrible year for civil liberties in the United States. Protests were quelled by military-grade weapons in scenes worthy of a banana republic, and the divide between the rich and the poor in the freedom and justice they are afforded is Dickensian in its scope. While the country has evolved on marriage equality, it often appears to be backtracking on just about every other advance we have made, from the racial and gender progress of the 1960s to the most basic principles of the criminal justice system. Below, we’ve listed the top 10 civil liberties nightmares of 2014 in no particular order. Here’s hoping this list is harder to put together next year.

10. The Supreme Court adds more sectarian religion to our lives.

9. The Supreme Court invites our corporate bosses to takes away our birth control.

8. Secrecy and botched executions.

7. The great torture shrug.

6. Voting rights.

5. Money in elections.

4. The Ferguson protest crackdown.

3. Civil forfeiture.

2. Abortion clinic closures.

1. Grand juries reviewing police misconduct.

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