Comments on: My Early Optimism on the War on Terror & Civil Liberties http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/02/04/my-early-optimism-on-the-war-on-terror-civil-liberties/ Author James Bovard Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: alpowolf http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/02/04/my-early-optimism-on-the-war-on-terror-civil-liberties/#comment-122690 alpowolf Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:28:15 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1443#comment-122690 Jim, right! But they have plenty of time and energy to hassle Toyota (whose customers will punish them well enough), or go on about how college football runs championships, etc. Jim, right! But they have plenty of time and energy to hassle Toyota (whose customers will punish them well enough), or go on about how college football runs championships, etc.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/02/04/my-early-optimism-on-the-war-on-terror-civil-liberties/#comment-122679 Jim Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:36:43 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1443#comment-122679 Dirk, that's a bullseye on Congress. Definitely seems to be a dearth of probing oversight hearings these days.... Dirk, that’s a bullseye on Congress.

Definitely seems to be a dearth of probing oversight hearings these days….

]]> By: Bill Jones http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/02/04/my-early-optimism-on-the-war-on-terror-civil-liberties/#comment-122672 Bill Jones Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:21:33 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1443#comment-122672 I well remember shortly after 9/11 being amazed at the "Only the Government can save us" mentality. On 1/2 Trillion dollars a year the fuckers in the military couldn't save their own headquarters from $12 worth of boxcutters. I well remember shortly after 9/11 being amazed at the “Only the Government can save us” mentality. On 1/2 Trillion dollars a year the fuckers in the military couldn’t save their own headquarters from $12 worth of boxcutters.

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/02/04/my-early-optimism-on-the-war-on-terror-civil-liberties/#comment-122669 Dirk W. Sabin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:13:40 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1443#comment-122669 It was bad enough to see the grasping malfeasance of the Bush Administration but to watch the Democrat that replaced them adopt and massage these same policies only serves to confirm the malignancy that has been set into motion. The only distance between the two is that one held the measures their prerogative and embraced stubborn pride in their employment as out "protector". The inheritor of the policies, the individuals who campaigned against them, now uses them in a surreptitiously reluctant manner, consigned to the use of excessive Executive power because they must reluctantly employ such measures to "protect" the public. Congress is the most consistent tie between the original securitists and their reluctant successors. The fecklessness of this Congress begs the imagination. They seem to embrace their irrelevancy. It was bad enough to see the grasping malfeasance of the Bush Administration but to watch the Democrat that replaced them adopt and massage these same policies only serves to confirm the malignancy that has been set into motion. The only distance between the two is that one held the measures their prerogative and embraced stubborn pride in their employment as out “protector”. The inheritor of the policies, the individuals who campaigned against them, now uses them in a surreptitiously reluctant manner, consigned to the use of excessive Executive power because they must reluctantly employ such measures to “protect” the public. Congress is the most consistent tie between the original securitists and their reluctant successors. The fecklessness of this Congress begs the imagination. They seem to embrace their irrelevancy.

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