It’s one thing for your run-of-the-mill Democratic activists to appear off their
rockers when talking about the Bush administration. You sort of expect it. But
when a Democratic party greybeard, like former Watergate prosecutor Samuel Dash,
pens an op-ed like this one ,
you really start to see how deep the paranoia and hatred go.
Money quote:
“The government overreaches when it employs its war against terror to attack the
liberties of American citizens. We now face sweeping federal wiretapping, secret
searches and seizures, arrest and detention without trial or right to counsel,
infiltration by FBI agents in our places of worship and in our social and
political clubs and associations. Not even what we read, either from libraries
or bookstores, is respected.
It is the time of the anonymous informer and the chilling threat, reminiscent of
Watergate, that dissent is unpatriotic and giving aid to the enemy.”
(Sorry this is from over a week ago; I was away and am just catching up on my
reading now.)