Dear DougR: War is always a threat to civil liberties. If it were not so, we Quakers would not have the joy of our traditional meetings with Amish, Mennonites and Othodox Jews as well as others of concience in prissons at the start of wars for two hundred years in the States. Those days are for the most part past, but as truth is the first casualty of war, we must remain vigilent or those days can come back. So the treat to civil liberties is always a possibility in any nation, during times of war it becomes a clear and present danger and one which we all should be ready to defend the rights of those we don't always agree with.
Cheers pals, Larry