It's Not Illegal, It's a Response to a Threat

At the New York Times National section, there's a navigation tool
in the middle, listing sub-sections you can visit to find what you're looking for. One might assume that if you wanted to learn about civil liberties issues, you would visit the "Supreme Court" sub-section. In reality, though, such articles are in what the NYT calls the "Threats and Responses" sub-section. That's right, it's not a violation of the Bill of Rights, it's just a response to a threat.

One such response was the suggestion by several lawmakers to fire a professor in Wisconsin be fired for some of his more peculiar ideas. There is a picture of the professor, too, and he looks very threatening.

The White House likes to frighten the American people with stories of such threats: threats to the nation, threats to future generations, threats to the Christian way of life, and other such terrifying ideas. Then, anything outrageous they do is not outrageous, it's just to keep us safe, a response to a threat.

Tags: Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Bill of Rights, Terrorism, Academic Freedom, New York Times, Politics of Fear