Clinton on Civil Liberties -

Clinton on Civil Liberties - The "Talkleft" blog has a fascinating look at the erosion of civil liberties...

...during the Clinton Administration::

Laura Murphy concludes that "both Clinton and Dole are indicative of how far tbe American people have slipped away from the notions embodied in the Bill of Rights." She omitted the role of the press, which seems focused primarily on that part of the First Amendment that protects the press.

Particularly revealing were the endorsements of Clinton by the New York Times, The Washington Post and the New Republic, among others. In none of them was the president's civil liberties record probed. (The Post did mention the FBI files at the White House.) Other ethical problems were cited, but nothing was mentioned about habeas corpus, court-stripping, lowering the content of the Internet to material suitable for children and the Clinton administration's decided lack of concern for privacy protections of the individual against increasingly advanced government technology.

A revealing footnote to the electorate's ignorance of this subverting of the Constitution is a statement by N. Don Wycliff, editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune. He tells Newsweek that "people are not engaged in the [political] process because there are no compelling issues driving them to participate. It would be different if we didn't have peace and prosperity."

If Ashcroft is gutting the constitution as the far left claims (wrongly, but let's be ecumenical here), then he's standing on the shoulders of giants; Reno, McCafferty, Clinton himself.

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Posted by Mitch at November 24, 2002 06:14 PM