From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The left is defunct only if we remain forever in a state of total war. And that's precisely why a vaguely defined, open-ended "war on terrorism" that suspends normal checks and balances for civil rights is as partisan as any policy ever has been.
No, it's because that's what we've got. Only in paranoid fantasies do we have a war that suspends normal checks and balances for civil rights. If it did, you and The Fool would have been arrested already. When Ashcroft's jack-booted thugs come for you, give me a call - I'll be happy to protect you.
Friday browncoat republicans in the house of representatives called the
police to arrest and remove democratic representatives from a library in
the house of representatives. The future is here and now. Never before
has something so shocking happened in the history of the united states.
Worse has happened. I would say the incident where Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor over Sumner's speech on "Bleeding Kansas" was worse.
john
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