Making civil liberties "popular" again
Glenn Greenwald has been closely following the doubts about the FBI’s accusation that Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide recently, was the anthrax culprit in 2001 after 9-11.
On the liberal side of blogosphere, the focus is on the awful possibility that Bruce Ivins was wronged. It seems to be an unfortunate fact that nowadays, a majority of Americans really couldn’t give two hoots about someone being wrongly accused. There they go with that softie protect-the-criminals stuff again.
Thinking politically, how does one connect with the most people on the need to avoid false accusations of crime? By appealing to their better natures to protect innocent people (assuming they are not guilty of something else)? Uh, no. What’s in it for them? How about reminding people of the elementary logic they have forgotten: If Bruce Ivins was not the right guy, that means, duh, the anthrax terrorist and murderer is still out there.
On the liberal side of blogosphere, the focus is on the awful possibility that Bruce Ivins was wronged. It seems to be an unfortunate fact that nowadays, a majority of Americans really couldn’t give two hoots about someone being wrongly accused. There they go with that softie protect-the-criminals stuff again.
Thinking politically, how does one connect with the most people on the need to avoid false accusations of crime? By appealing to their better natures to protect innocent people (assuming they are not guilty of something else)? Uh, no. What’s in it for them? How about reminding people of the elementary logic they have forgotten: If Bruce Ivins was not the right guy, that means, duh, the anthrax terrorist and murderer is still out there.
posted by KISSWeb | 12:46 PM
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