“Our Democratic law professor president, a self-described progressive, has created a perfect storm. Ten years ago, liberals screamed because the Republican administration took note of what patrons checked out at the library. Today, they seem much more complacent in the face of more intimate forms of mass surveillance. Democrats once talked about prosecuting executive officials for wrongdoing. Today they muse about whether the government should jail journalists like Glenn Greenwald, U.S. columnist for the British newspaper, the Guardian, merely for providing a soapbox for whistleblowers.”
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4670
Related posts:
Jeffrey Tucker: Thank You, Russia?
How Police Became a Standing Army
Bill Bonner: What Do Bond Investors Know That Stock Investors Don’t?
Thomas Jefferson on Liberty
America's Emerging Police State: A Brief History
Yes, We Live in a Communist Country
When Did the “Peace Officers” Get a “License to Kill”?
When You Need To Disappear
BEARCAT Bread And Circuses, Or Why I Ripped Up My Ticket
Internet Fascism and the Surveillance State
The State: Always the Accuser, Never the Defendant
Labor Day 2013: How To Get and Keep a Job in a Fast-Changing Economy
The “Domestic Terrorist” You Can Call a Hero
Kill Lists Will Continue
Coinsetter CEO’s Message to Banks: You Will Soon Love Bitcoin