Oh please. Sure, Bovard is bipartisan in a libertarian sense, but this screed on foreign and domestic security policy is straight out of the far left playbook. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
"I also noticed you skipped the domestic surveillance bit..."
skipped for the sake of brevity only. I chose to focus on the more significant bit - which I noticed you completely dodged. If we're all dead, there isn't much to surveille, is there?
Show me one actual case of abuse of Patriot Act powers. Just one. Cite one single case filed by the ACLU against the Justice Department for Patriot Act invasion of civil rights. Just one!
How many American lives is the theoretic sanctity of your library records worth? Would you sacrifice your own children on the alter of political correctness, or only other people's children? Mine, perhaps?
You seem to act as if the war against Radical Islam (enough with the euphemisms folks; let's call a spade a spade) has no bearing upon or relation to the "domestic surveillance" you fear-monger with.
Are you one of those who also castigates the Bush administration for failing to "connect the dots" to prevent 9/11?
What exactly is your view of the war we're in? Are we even in a war? If you think not, can you address my assertions otherwise from my previous post? If you aren't in denial, how then do you suggest we fight it?