I know, we're silly that way. Thinking that one of the founding cornerstones of this country, a little piece of paper called The Bill of Rights, actually carried some weight. Silly rabbit, civil liberties aren't for you.
Meanwhile, your Patriot Act has swept aside constitutional and civil liberties that took brave Americans 200 years to secure and were once the envy of a world that now looks on in horror, not just at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib but at what you are doing to yourselves.
The whole article is great, of course; frightening, but beautifully put.
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John Le Carré had a great piece in The LA Times on 10/20, called "If Le Carré Could Vote," in which he said:
Meanwhile, your Patriot Act has swept aside constitutional and civil liberties that took brave Americans 200 years to secure and were once the envy of a world that now looks on in horror, not just at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib but at what you are doing to yourselves.
The whole article is great, of course; frightening, but beautifully put.