Originally shared by Dan Gillmor
Missed this earlier in the week: The ACLU released a comprehensive report on the erosion of civil liberties in the last decade. The report goes into depressing detail on the relentless assault on our basic rights -- policies that the Obama administration has, in many ways, expanded in the past three years.
The Left has gone mostly silent in the Obama years, to its enduring shame. And the Right, applauding the shredding of the Bill of Rights (other than the Second Amendment), continues to demonstrate the hypocrisy of its claims to believe in liberty.
See also Glenn Greenwald's excellent analysis of the report: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/07/liberties
http://www.aclu.org/national-security/report-call-courage-reclaiming-our-liberties-ten-years-after-911
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