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interesting-people message[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [Elist Home] Subject: [IP] more on Losing America [corrected URL and adding comment]
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <rmfxixB0406@bobf.frankston.com> Date: September 14, 2004 3:15:49 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: Losing America [corrected URL and adding comment] I happened to catch a rebroadcast of http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3622026 – Senator Byrd talking about his book, “Losing America”. It’s a good follow-up to the “police state” discussion on this list. One point he makes is that the Republicans success in getting their party members in Congress to toe the line is subverting the Constitutional system of checks and balances. Though he didn’t mention it I can’t help but worry about four years to finish loading the Supreme Court. It’s not so much a question of whether the policies are right or wrong. The issue is the lack of checks and balances. To those who think there is just one “right” it may not be an issue. For those of us who have a degree of uncertainty this is frightening – changing ones mind in the face of reality is disparaged as flipping and flopping and, worse, unpatriotic. To misquote Barry Goldwater – Extremism in the name of liberty is a successful operation with a dead patient. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people@lists.elistx.com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [Elist Home] Search:
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