American Civil Liberties, It Was Nice Knowing You

In light of the following article, which you should read in its entirety, consider joining me on the Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, or BUST wagon. THE TIME FOR HALF MEASURES IS LONG GONE. (A vote for Romney is a half-measure, in my view.)

Here’s law professor Jonathan Turley’s top ten reasons America is no longer the land of the free.

The column addresses how the continued rollbacks on civil liberties in the United States conflicts with the view of the country as the land of the free.  If we are going to adopt Chinese legal principles, we should at least have the integrity to adopt one Chinese proverb: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”  We seem as a country to be in denial as to the implications of these laws and policies.  Whether we are viewed as a free country with authoritarian inclinations or an authoritarian nation with free aspirations (or some other hybrid definition), we are clearly not what we once were.

Read the whole thing.

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