Posted on 06/07/2013 10:11:29 AM PDT by grundle
We have arrived at a defining moment for the progressive movement in this nation.
The New York Times editorial board, which has generally given this president a lot of leeway throughout his career, wrote a scathing denunciation Friday of the Obama administration’s use of data mining, claiming that “the administration has now lost all credibility" on the issue of balancing civil rights with national security.
Every progressive with even a shred of moral consistency should side with the New York Times against the White House.
The events of the past month – from the Associated Press subpoena to the James Rosen search warrant to the revelation that our government has been indiscriminately collecting phone records data – have forced liberals to make a choice between complacency and outrage, between keeping silent because one of our own is in the White House and calling him out on betraying the principles for which we have fought for so long.
Consistency has never been the fiber of political discourse but it is nonetheless a vital ingredient of credibility.
Progressives rightly denounced the overreach of the Bush administration when it came to abuses of the Patriot Act. We should just as strongly denounce the expansion of those abuses by this administration.
Many of us did not buy the previous administration’s excuse that overreaching infringement upon the civil rights of ordinary Americans was a necessary step in keeping those same ordinary Americans safe. We should not buy it from this administration now, simply because this president is ostensibly one of us.
If this White House truly wanted to level with the American people, the president would have gone on national television to explain the necessity of these programs and the trade-offs between civil liberties and security he believes are consistent with his policies.
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PFL
HA!!!!!!!!
I bet they pulled a groin muscle on that
They’re not happy with Obama at DU.
Yeah, like Stalin and his supporters held Trotsky accountable!
The NYT doesn’t even stand by the NYT - they are already trying to put the pin back in the handgrenade.
Some FReepers have suggested that with essentially total control of education, the media, and internet portals, the progressives don’t even consider Republicans to be competition anymore and the internal purges have begun.
Drudge indicates that the editorial has now been changed and sanitized.
Now, why would they want to do that?
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