[FoRK] Another one bites the dust

[Russell Turpin]

Jeff Bone:
> Even in context this quote is an example of some of the most
> pernicious right-thinking of the last several decades, namely:
> security needs justify any excess, any tyranny, etc. 

In that quote, Buckley prefigures what we see in the Bush right. The
excess isn't just from an appeal to security, but also by undermining 
the notion that there is an importance to the procedural constraints 
of liberal government. If government is the enemy, and outcome all 
that matters, then it makes little difference, for example, whether 
wiretapping is done with or without warrant and oversight. It matters 
only whether the good guys are in power, and why they are ordering
it. "We need government for the duration, so we might as well allow
that it will be totalitarian." 

Feh.


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