We've been warned about this before. How quickly we forget that the thousand page Patriot Act appeared almost out of no where during the 9/11 hysteria and was passed almost unanimously. At this stroke of a pen our representatives launched the national security state on steroids and drastically undermined our Fourth Amendment rights. Even…
We've been warned about this before. How quickly we forget that the thousand page Patriot Act appeared almost out of no where during the 9/11 hysteria and was passed almost unanimously. At this stroke of a pen our representatives launched the national security state on steroids and drastically undermined our Fourth Amendment rights. Even worse, when it came up for renewal under the "liberal" leadership of Barak Obama, Congress passed it again even though the original bill being based on lies. Someone once said that American fascism will not come by military coup. It won't have to. We willingly sign away our rights one by one. And those that don't disappear with our acquiescence are secretly undermined by the NSA. Taibbi's article is notable because members of our legal community, who swear to uphold the constitution are suggesting that we carve out a slice or two from the First Amendment. They can't have the rabble making a mess of "their" democracy. But democracy is supposed to be messy. Our history is replete with examples of elites trying to direct and control and peoples movements saying 'not so fast.' Hopefully we still have enough peoples movements to appose these recommendations. When honest journalism fails, so does our democracy.
We've been warned about this before. How quickly we forget that the thousand page Patriot Act appeared almost out of no where during the 9/11 hysteria and was passed almost unanimously. At this stroke of a pen our representatives launched the national security state on steroids and drastically undermined our Fourth Amendment rights. Even worse, when it came up for renewal under the "liberal" leadership of Barak Obama, Congress passed it again even though the original bill being based on lies. Someone once said that American fascism will not come by military coup. It won't have to. We willingly sign away our rights one by one. And those that don't disappear with our acquiescence are secretly undermined by the NSA. Taibbi's article is notable because members of our legal community, who swear to uphold the constitution are suggesting that we carve out a slice or two from the First Amendment. They can't have the rabble making a mess of "their" democracy. But democracy is supposed to be messy. Our history is replete with examples of elites trying to direct and control and peoples movements saying 'not so fast.' Hopefully we still have enough peoples movements to appose these recommendations. When honest journalism fails, so does our democracy.