<p>+10!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 27, 2011 3:45 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Proud Member since 2005 ( I think).<br>
> <br>> Whatever lunatic fringe you happen to belong to, these dudes are on<br>> the side of the Angels.<br>> <br>> -- CHS<br>> <br>> <br>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:06 PM, arxaaron <<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> On 2011/06/27, at 13:00 , Derek Atkins wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Aaron Ruscetta <<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>>>><br>>>>> A nice endorsement of EFF from a regular column in the<br>
>>>> Chronicle of Higher Education:<br>>>>><br>>>>> <<a href="http://tinyurl.com/profhacker4eff">http://tinyurl.com/profhacker4eff</a>><br>>>>> <<a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/profhacker4eff">http://preview.tinyurl.com/profhacker4eff</a>><br>
>>>><br>>>>> EFF is our strongest voice for defending our civil liberties in the<br>>>>> courts of the U.S. legal system. It's an uphill battle though,<br>>>>> because<br>
>>>> for more than 25 years the rabid rapist right wing has politically<br>>>>> blockaded judicial appointments wherever the candidate had<br>>>>> a history of defending the U.S. Constitution and the civil liberties<br>
>>>> of citizens against corporate greed, corruption and abuse.<br>>>><br>>>> Eroding of civil liberties is not limited to just the right wing.<br>>>> We've<br>>>> seen erosions under Clinton and Obama, as much as we've seen erosions<br>
>>> under Bush. I think the erosion is more a factor of the "have power,<br>>>> want more power" than about which side of the aisle the leader comes<br>>>> from.<br>>><br>>> Looking at the record, it seems the blanket political strategy of<br>
>> blocking<br>>> judicial appointments until vacancies can be filled by some corporate<br>>> whore has been fairly exclusive to the rabid right wing going back to<br>>> Nixon.<br>>> The obstructionism has allowed the radical right to effectively stack<br>
>> our<br>>> courts with their extremist ideologues, from the federal circuits to the<br>>> 5 Supreme Injustices currently shredding the constitution in our highest<br>>> court.<br>>><br>>> peace<br>
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