A quotation from the very end of U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s striking down of the NSA Warrantless Wiretap program. This one’s going in my quotation database.
Implicit in the term “national defense” is the notion of defending those values and ideas which set this Nation apart. … It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of … those liberties … which makes the defense of the Nation worthwhile.
— Justice Warren, US v. Robel 389 US 258 (1967)
Indeed.
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‘Course King George is just ignoring her. Who the hell does she think she is anyway?
Well, amongst various analysis of the ruling here are reports on just who/what she’s being accused of being.