white devil on 21 December 2007
| N-Syte said: I don't know why people feel like they have to go so far over-the-top to make their point. Yes, the Constitution has been interpreted in ways not originally intended, but that's a far cry from suggesting that half the Bill of Rights has been repealed by fiat (by the current president, no less – he has so much power, not even the Congress, controlled by the opposition party, can stop him). Give me a break. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and FDR engaged in extreme censorship of the press. Extreme times call for extreme measures, but we are hardly living under martial law. Quoting some random comment on Digg is probably not the strongest way to make a point either. I’m not a backer of Ron Paul, but that statement is clearly unfair. If the abortion issue were left to the states, it would not be banned across the country just like it was not banned across the country prior to Roe v Wade. The truth is most of “progressive” Europe has more restrictive abortion law than the US. All Roe v Wade did was take the decision out of the hands of the people and left it a gaping wound to be rehashed over and over again election after election. Democracy is a better way to handle these sorts of moral issues. |
The problem is, we're not living in extreme times. It's only extreme because of the shit in Iraq that shouldn't have happened anyway. The biggest triumph of the neocons is that ppl still believe we live in mortal danger above and beyond what we've always lived under, and that has given them unprecedented power for a time when the survival of the nation wasn't at question.
