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Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:00 AM

Interview with ACLU re: constitutional challenge to new FISA law

Jameel Jaffer, the Director of the ACLU National Security Project, explains why the new FISA law violates the 4th Amendment and is even broader than the President's illegal NSA program

Glenn Greenwald

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Friday, July 11, 2008 09:42 AM

Left-wing Authoritarians

Just for the heck of it, I went back to Bob Altemeyer's "The Authoritaritans" to see if I could find any parallels with the few, but annoying, Obama supporters. This made me laugh...

You could have left-wing authoritarian followers as well, who support a revolutionary leader who wants to overthrow the establishment. I knew a few in the 1970s, Marxist university students who constantly spouted their chosen authorities, Lenin or Trotsky or Chairman Mao. Happily they spent most of their time fighting with each other, as lampooned in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where the People’s Front of Judea devotes most of its energy to battling, not the Romans, but the Judean People’s Front.

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

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