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Friday, 13 January 2006

Amazing Supplement to My Previous Post!

My last post was underwritten by considerations just such as these.  An excerpt:

Thanks to the ceaseless fear-mongering of this Administration, we are becoming – excuse the grotesque imagery -- a Nation of Jonah Goldbergs, scared and lazy creatures who sit around believing that the Government is justified – even obligated – to act literally without constraint against the Bad People, the ones who are deemed to be Bad not pursuant to any "procedural niceties" but simply by the unchecked decree of the Government. These Jonah Goldbergs love to talk tough. But they are repulsively coddled and effete, whining about every perceived petty injustice which affects them but breezily endorsing the most limitless abuses of others, as long as the "others" seem sufficiently demonized and far enough away.

Glenn Greenwald makes very explicit the connection between violating the legal rights of the antecedently condemned in the name of "plain moral commonsense" when overstepping those rights will bring about some perceived good or eradicate some perceived evil.  This  "plain moral commonsense" attributed to "Real America" by JCN appears to be one of Strip Search Sammy's judicial principles.  One more excerpt:

After all, we’re dealing here with people whom the State says it suspects, but has not yet proven, are "drug dealers." With those people (and, of course, with "suspected terrorists"), anything goes, even before a trial and without any due process of any kind. All of this can be done strictly on the Government's say-so, even if the Constitutional "niceties" which exist to prohibit such behavior haven’t been complied with. "It may be wrong," spits out Jonah, but we should do it anyway, because these people deserve it.

Ugh.  This turns my stomach.  I hope "Real America" thinks that the JCN is an abominable organization.

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