NEW YORK (AP) - Saying the city had created its ``own little Guantanamo on the Hudson'' during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer Monday filed a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 2,000 people arrested at demonstrations.
The federal lawsuit claims protesters and bystanders alike were rounded up in mass arrests without cause; were kept without access to their lawyers or families at an old bus depot used as a temporary detention center; and were exposed for days to cruel and inhuman conditions.
The lawsuit asks for unspecified damages.
``All that was missing were the orange jumpsuits,'' lawyer Jonathan C. Moore said. ``Under the guise of terrorism and the fear of terrorism, we are all losing our
rights.''
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.