The right has three principles:

• Lie - For example insisting despite all that George Bush's catrastrophic "leadership" is both necessary and good. Lying is not a tactic for these people, it is an essential principle.
• Hate America - The very idea of "inalienable rights" is anathema.
• Worship Idols - Tom Paine also said, "In America, our King is Above", but the worship of Money, Power, and the Leader, is fundamental to the Right. These are the Moloch worshippers who throw babies into the fire.

Do we all worship idols? To me it is fascinating that the propaganda pillars of the right - traditional values, limited government, religion, patriotism and so on - are precisely what they repudiate and attack. The biblical injunctions against idol worship are directed at the ill effects of pretending that objects and people are supernatural. The ideology that holds human beings to be natural slaves of the State and Leader requires the Leader and the trappings of power (e.g. the flag) to be sacred - more than human. Humanism and mainstream American religions are enemies of the Right in so far as they challenge this doctrine.

You claim:

The emancipation proclamation against rebelious slavers was tyranny

But the fugitive slave act which allowed armed thugs to kidnap citizens and drag them away to torture and death was the rule of law

Federal troops preventing southern states from killing black voters was lawless

but lynch law was freedom.

But it's clear that you just hate blacks, gays, and women.

The state is always violating the rights of citizens. What distinguishes good from bad and bad from insane is the selection of which violations cause outrage. "Separate but equal" was a lie, and everyone knew it. If the courts had the courage to mandate actual equality instead of choosing the path they did, wankers like you would find some other rationale and pompous cloak for "keep the niggers down". That government governs best that governs least is a duplicitous slogan for those who find deputy sheriffs enforcing slavery with shotguns and nighttime burials "limited government", but federal soldiers protecting schoolchildren from violent mobs to be tyranny.

It's pretty simple. During the Civil Rights period, the White South was a terror regime, operating outside of the rule of law and continuing a regime that was created by the great KKK terrorist campaign that resulted from the Federal government's abandonment of black citizens. So complaints about over-reaching on the part of the Courts and Feds during this period should make any decent human being puke at the sheer dishonesty. Similarly, Scalia and Borks duplicitous claim that rights not mentioned in the Constitution are not rights flies in the face of the text of the constitution and the explicit statements of the effin authors and is doubly farcial considering Bork and Scalia's silence over the wild over-reaching power extensions of the Executive since WWI ( not to mention: where does the Constitution permit the Courts to decide that money is speech or that Corporations are legal persons?).

Atrios reminds us that the "liberal" end of the acceptable opinion makers dismissed this NSA scandal and, typically, attacked the patriots who objected.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_05_13_archive.html#3825032364711870529