Yeah: what Greenwald said:
Clearly, we're at the point where a belief in due process, press freedoms and basic restraints on government and military power demonstrate a hatred for America and its freedoms. A belief in those principles constitutes "siding with the enemy." Only by joyously affirming the power of the Government to detain people for life with no charges, to break laws enacted by Congress, to spy on Americans with no warrants, to torture detainees, and to arrest war journalists and hold them for years can one prove one's loyalty to the country.
This attitude comes wrapped in several rationalizations.
One holds that things like civil liberties are fine in peacetime, but in times of terrorism and war we need to Get the Job Done rather than abide by our principles.
Another is the What-Me-Worry? way of thinking done by people who say to themselves, "I've got nothing to hide; I've got mine; I'm not a journalist or a terrorist, so who cares what happens to them?"
The third is the kind of argument which views discipline, order and punishment as ends in themselves rather than as means to civil society. People who push this line are the out-and-out authoritarians. They are in a minority among the opponents of civil liberties, but they are enabled and emboldened by their more "reasonable" brethren. They scare me the most.
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