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Showing Original Post only (View all)How can ANY Democrat defend the detention of Greenwald's partner? [View all]
If you support the core values of the Democratic Party, doesn't that give you a personal obligation to OPPOSE the national security state when it clearly oversteps its boundaries? When it treats people like terrorists just because they engage in free speech? When the work against government secrecy(a practice that never has anything but right-wing objectives and right-wing results)?
How can anyone call themselves a Democrat and ever back the use of repression against those who are simply defending the people's right to know?
It's not like secrecy and the shadow world of covert action are wrong when the Republican use them, but ok when our guys do it. Secrecy is always aimed against the common people, against workers, against the poor, and against peace. No one but Reaganites or Nixonites should EVER defend such despicable things.