Arthur Miller accuses Bush of abusing and curbing civil rights

[Doug Millison]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=111355

Arthur Miller, America's greatest living playwright, will speak out against
the Bush administration for abusing civil rights, in a BBC interview to be
broadcast on Christmas Day.

Miller was called before Senator McCarthy's Un-American Activities
Committee in the crusade against supposed left-wingers in 1956 and wrote
one of his greatest plays, The Crucible, in response to it. He says he now
fears the United States is using the war on terrorism to "increase its
power over civil rights". Miller's words make him the highest-profile
figure in the American arts world to take issue with President Bush's
stance. [...]