[Infowarrior] - UK v US legisator contrasts on civil liberties

[Richard Forno]

British debate highlights the cravenness and complicity of  
congressional Democratic "leaders"

The intense and escalating political dispute in Britain over civil  
liberties is interesting in its own right, but it also vividly  
illustrates how craven and barren our own political system -- and the  
U.S. Democratic Party -- have become. The sacrifices now being made by  
British politicians of all parties in opposition to expanded  
government detention and surveillance powers is, with a few noble  
exceptions, exactly what our political elite in the Bush era have been  
-- and still are -- too afraid or too craven to undertake. As the  
Democratic Party prepares this week to endorse the Bush  
administration's illegal spying program and immunize telecoms which  
deliberately broke our surveillance laws for years, these contrasts  
become even more acute.

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/15/britain/