Rights and liberties are little more than exceptions to the rule, open to interpretation by government officials who can throw them out based upon expediency
The Magician’s Con: Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal Cliff Debates
“If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects.”—Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing.
