The World of the Bush Follower

Regarding those disappearing civil liberties Glenn Greenwald has more on serial adulterer Newt Gingrich's latests attack on the first amendment. And the Unbearable (Never)Rightness of Bush Followers

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Today's tour around the world of the Bush follower

Even in light of all the radical and tyrannical conduct Pursued as part of the "War on Terror," I would have thought that most every american could agree that having Newt Gingrich re-write the free speech clause of The First Amendment -- really abolish it -- would be an idea so grotesque, stupid And dangerous that it would merit no debate. I was very wrong.

Gingrich followed up his speech last week calling for "a serious debate about the first amendment" so that we can "break up [the terrorists'] capacity to use free speech," with a new article that goes even further. Titled "The First Amendment is Not a Suicide Pact," Gingrich said that suspected terrorists should be "subject to a totally different set of rules" and called for "international rules of engagement on what activities will not be protected by free speech claims."

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