Glenn Greenwald Sounding Like an Economist
From this blog post:
It really is the case that every new Terrorist incident reflexively produces a single-minded focus on one question: which rights should we take away now/which new powers should we give the Government? We never reach the point where we decide that we have already retracted enough rights. Further restrictions on rights seems to be the only reaction of which our political and media class is capable in the face of a new attack. The premise seems to be that if we keep limiting rights further and further, we’ll eventually reach the magical point of Absolute Safety where there will be no more Terrorism. For so many reasons, that is an obvious myth, one that ensures that we’ll reduce rights infinitely and with no discernible benefit. We’re not the target of Terrorist attacks because we have too many rights; we’re the target because of our own actions, ones that we never reconsider in light of new attacks because we’re too busy figuring out which rights to erode next.
It’s ironic that Glenn Greenwald, like every card-carrying progressive, treats economics in the same manner that he is denouncing.
Greenwald is actually an amazing breath of fresh air from the rest of the sycophants in the media. The majority of his postings are on civil liberties. He’s done an absolutely amazing job of calling Obama and the rest out on the full embrace of the Bush terror doctrine, in many cases going further than Bush ever dreamed.
You’re right. I was commenting on his economic views. Which, thankfully, he does devote much time to. He does do a wonderful job on his area of specialty – civil liberty.
” We’re not the target of Terrorist attacks because we have too many rights; we’re the target because of our own actions”?! What a racist, far-right Paultard! What’s next for Greenwald? Federal legislation should be consistent with the Constitution? Send this guy to the looney bin!