Some Kind of Civil Libertarian April 14, 2009
Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized.Tags: News, Politics
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It’s always seemed to me that Glenn Greenwald is more interested in achieving (in his own mind) some sort of moral superiority apotheosis than in speaking on behalf of civil liberties. I’m even more convinced of it after learning of his reactions to the DHS “right-wing extremism” report.
I mean, come on. Blaming it all on people on the right? Reaping what they sow? It wasn’t quite people on the right who are responsible for electing Obama president or having a DHS secretary who renames “terrorist attacks” as “man-caused disasters”. DHS is as much Obama’s show as press conferences in the Rose Garden, so maybe if the Obama White House wasn’t cut from such an authoritarian cloth the “Surveillance State” of Greenwald’s nightmares (and bookselling dreams) would have collapsed on January 20th.
There is no moral equivalence here. And if Greenwald was serious about civil liberties he’d be tearing his hair in outrage right now and taking the Obama White House and DHS to task for rhetorically siccing law enforcement agencies on a particular political faction.
