Berkeley City Council Doing Its Anti-Democracy Bit

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Originally Posted by Ibram

You're right, it was philosophy in action...

...and the only freedoms that it threatened were the freedoms Bush took away when it happened.

In other words, no freedoms removed at all. I've been living right here, in these United States since September 2001, and can you say the same? Not one freedom have I lost, nor am I likely to lose one. Same thing for you, particularly once you come to man's estate. Even Bill Clinton, great friend of the Bill of Rights that he was, couldn't manage taking freedoms and rights away -- though not for want of effort.

I'm beginning to think that if DanaC is a fair example of European leftist opinion on the matter, then Dick Cheney was right about Old Europe: they really are exhausted, vitiated, and quite helpless in this clash, and we ought not to expect much help from that quarter winning the war against a lot of shitheaded antidemocratic bigots.