2018-04-10T14:36:52-04:00
No amount of Americans killed by Islamic terrorists would ever be enough to justify violating civil rights, we were told.
The civil rights in question were generally the rights of Islamic terrorists and Muslim Brotherhood operatives. But after 9/11, the left learned to love the Constitution. It lectured us ceaselessly on civil rights.
Even if a nuclear bomb were about to go off in two hours, it wouldn't justify waterboarding a single terrorist.
No threat was great enough. Except the threat of a Republican presidential victory.
Now we're told that attorney-client privilege must be sacrificed to fight the threat of a Russian conspiracy theory invented by the Clinton campaign. Or the threat of Stormy Daniels. Or whatever the excuse for this week's civil rights abuse is.
If we don't lock up all the Republicans now, they might win another election.
Team Mueller has made violating attorney-client privilege routine. What was once shocking is now just business as usual.
"Sure, we're breaking into the home of the president's lawyer because his political opponent paid a shady British guy to come up with some opposition research claiming he works for the Russians. If he's really innocent, he has nothing to hide."
Watergate? That was amateur hour. The pros don't break in at night. They do it in the daylight. They wave around official paperwork and invent a crisis.
"We must immediately break into this hotel, steal all the documents and pass them along to the Washington Post, or the Russian bots will hack everything."
Democracy doesn't die in darkness. It dies in the blazing light of the noonday sun. It dies in hypocrisy, corruption and contempt. It dies when the republic is broken by those promising to save it.
The civil rights in question were generally the rights of Islamic terrorists and Muslim Brotherhood operatives. But after 9/11, the left learned to love the Constitution. It lectured us ceaselessly on civil rights.
Even if a nuclear bomb were about to go off in two hours, it wouldn't justify waterboarding a single terrorist.
No threat was great enough. Except the threat of a Republican presidential victory.
Now we're told that attorney-client privilege must be sacrificed to fight the threat of a Russian conspiracy theory invented by the Clinton campaign. Or the threat of Stormy Daniels. Or whatever the excuse for this week's civil rights abuse is.
If we don't lock up all the Republicans now, they might win another election.
Team Mueller has made violating attorney-client privilege routine. What was once shocking is now just business as usual.
"Sure, we're breaking into the home of the president's lawyer because his political opponent paid a shady British guy to come up with some opposition research claiming he works for the Russians. If he's really innocent, he has nothing to hide."
Watergate? That was amateur hour. The pros don't break in at night. They do it in the daylight. They wave around official paperwork and invent a crisis.
"We must immediately break into this hotel, steal all the documents and pass them along to the Washington Post, or the Russian bots will hack everything."
Democracy doesn't die in darkness. It dies in the blazing light of the noonday sun. It dies in hypocrisy, corruption and contempt. It dies when the republic is broken by those promising to save it.
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