Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Marshall plan…

…for FISA. When Matt Stoller pinged the Darcy Burner campaign for a statement on the FISA fight, she forwarded this from the late Justice Thurgood Marshall…
"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when Constitutional rights seem too extravagent to endure. The World War II relocation camp cases, and the Red Scare and McCarthy-era internal subversion cases are only the most extreme reminders that when we allow fundamental freedoms to be sacrificed in the name of real or perceived exigency, we invariably come to regret it."
Yep.

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