Comments on: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:31:59 +0000

[...] Although I think it’s interesting and important to have a public conversation about the best way to deal with the terrorist threat, I wonder if we would be as vocal about rights, wiretapping, extraordinary rendition and everything else if Bush wasn’t in power. [...]

By: Matski

Matski — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:09:33 +0000

Thanks for the link to the Ivins article … lawd, but I loves me some Molly Ivins. “The last of the great Texas progressives.”

By: beige

beige — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:07:25 +0000

Molly Ivins sez it better:

http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv

Love the pullquote from W’s three-year-old speech.

By: beige

beige — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:37:36 +0000

and yet, that’s precisely what I worry about when I read things like this…I’ll save my more outre’ thoughts on the matter for non-respectable places like my blog, but when you combine this with BushKo’s history on civilian rights (wiretapping, etc…it really wasn’t that long ago, y’know?), it gets my underthings into a bind.

By: contrarian

contrarian — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:55:56 +0000

Yeah, I thought of you when I was reading that on the train on Saturday! I don’t know, the guy’s got a book out about Ancient Rome and, honestly, I don’t care what happens to terrorists or even people who are friends with terrorists. I’m not worried about democracy yet . . .