Why are there so many apologists on this board for the civil liberties overreaches of this...

[H2O Man]

104. Fair question.

I'll begin my answer by saying that I think there are several sub-groups on DU. There are the people who are here for no good reason; hence, there is no good reason to consider what they are here for. Then, there are good people who, in all sincerity, are always in a "pro-Democratic Party" mindset. They are convinced, and not without some very good reasons, that anything the republicans are for, they must be against ..... and that anything republicans are against, they are for.

Thus, when republicans cluster like flies around anything a Democrat in office does, they tend to dismiss the very possibility that the Democrat might have done something wrong.

The truth is that the conflict between all three branches of the federal government and the "free press" -- or, Amendment 1 -- has long been fought most frequently by the executive branch. This is merely part of the executive branch's on-going attempts to limit our constitutional rights ..... primarily those found in the Bill of Rights .... and it has included some Democrats, among more numerous republicans.

I believe those expressing support of the Attorney General's Office -- and indeed, the Obama administration -- on virtually everything are sincere. But they are wrong.