So here’s a question:\u00a0 It’s conventional “wisdom” among BDS-addled liberals that Bush has gutted the Constitution, razed civil liberties, laid siege to the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n
This from the party that not only pushed the ’94 Crime Bill and the ’96 Counterterrorism Bill – the two greatest guttings of real <\/em>civil liberties in our lifetimes – but many of whom referred to people who opposed those infringements as “wackoes” and “nutcases”.\u00a0 It’s the party that is not only promotes the return of the Fairness Doctrine, but has a history of trying to censor criticism<\/a>.\u00a0 They prance and gambol about like poo-flinging monkeys over Guantanamo Bay – but giggled like schoolgirls when the FBI murdered two Americans<\/a> with conveniently-ugly beliefs and covered up the evidence of their wrongdoing.<\/p>\n So with that background in mind, someone please tell me (and this is not the first time I’ve asked) – precisely what civil liberties have Americans lost under Bush.<\/p>\n And when writing your list, please omit any claims to liberties – wiretapping, data mining – that actually shifted to “puree” under Clinton.<\/p>\n Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So here’s a question:\u00a0 It’s conventional “wisdom” among BDS-addled liberals that Bush has gutted the Constitution, razed civil liberties, laid siege to the Bill of Rights. This from the party that not only pushed the ’94 Crime Bill and the ’96 Counterterrorism Bill – the two greatest guttings of real civil liberties in our lifetimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}