The next person who says Obama does civil liberties better than Bush deserves a boot to the head
September 30, 2010
Make that a boot stomping on a human face — forever.
I actually had someone try and pull that on me in a debate, more or less in the sense “BUSH HAZ WORST RECORD ON CIVIL LIBERTIEZ EVAR.”
This was true, when he was in office. But Obama has doubled down on the fascist police state with nary a noise of dissent from the left. Let us review:
- Obama renewed the Patriot Act.
- Police now get to place GPS tracking devices on your car without warrants.
- X-Ray vans now patrol American streets, and the Feds won’t give anyone details where or what they’re looking for.
- FBI: “All your Internets belong to us.”
- Obama upps the ante defending Bush’s eeevil Warrentless Wiretapping.
- Oh, politicizing DoJ law enforcement to give favored groups a pass? check.
- And about Gitmo.
- And those military tribunals.
- And if you’re getting criticized on abusing the power to detain enemy combatants indefinitely? Stop calling them enemy combatants.
- Targeting American citizens by executive order, no due process required.
Yeah, vast improvement.
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