February 19, 2008

U.S. Supreme Court: You Have No Standing to Challenge Fascism

The Supreme Court fails a fundamental test of liberty.

For many years, I've tried to sort out what are relatively minor losses to freedom versus major abandonment of constitutional principles of democracy and liberty.

This is a major failure, in effect permitting wholesale government monitoring of all the data in our lives. Because it's secret, the court says we have no standing, unless we do, in which case we can't challenge it because it would reveal state secrets.

It keeps a open path to any fascistic intent on the part of the government.

There has been some.

3 Comments:

Blogger The Sum of All Monkeys said...

The one bright note in recent news of this sort is that the telcos might still not get immunity.

Oh who am I kidding? Until we actually tar and feather these bastards as a warning to others,
We're screwed.

The French weren't kind to collaborators once the Nazis moved out, and I expect no less this time around.

Or: Anne Coulter needs her head shaved.

February 19, 2008 at 10:07 PM  
Blogger VMM said...

HIS head shaved, you mean.

February 21, 2008 at 1:43 AM  
Blogger JAB said...

Was it not Wonkette that referred to her as

"Skeletal Hobo Queen?"

February 21, 2008 at 8:11 AM  

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