PATRIOTs and Chicken Littles
The Burden of Bad Memes
PATRIOTs and Chicken Littles
by Julian Sanchez
ReasonOnline
It's official: The fashionable fall meme for unreconstructed Bush administration cheerleaders is the notion that civil-libertarian concerns about the PATRIOT Act have been much ado about nothing: the squawking of so many Chicken Littles.
The defense of PATRIOT has been slow in coming, in part because it was possible, at first,
to dismiss criticism as predictable carping from the usual suspects: the
American Civil Liberties Union,
the
Electronic Frontier Foundation,
and other notorious "fifth columnists," to borrow the new right's sledgehammer-subtle
imprecation du jour. Things became trickier once
American Baptist Churches,
the
American Conservative Union,
Gun Owners of America,
and folks like Georgia ex-representative
Bob Barr
began voicing reservations. The
conservative base has begun to get nervous.
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Posted by Lance Brown at September 3, 2003 02:36 PM
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