Captain Splendid's Journal: QOTD

Matt Taibbi, AGAIN:

Memo to those Tea Party activists out there who've been howling about those liberal wusses in the Obama Justice Department who read Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights: congratulations. You've just opened the door for a major new expansion of government power.

Look,

[Philip K Dickhead]

Taibbi just rocks. He's this generation's HST, without the narcissistic boomer bullshit, that Thompson thought was as interesting as his observations.

Re:

[Captain Splendid]

No disagreement from me. It's just, I've been reading him and Ames since way back from the Exile days, and well, it's kinda sad how on the nose they've been. Reading him used to be a delightful, secret pleasure. Now, I just get frustrated. He's deservedly gotten a much bigger audience, and he's stuck to his guns and not gone soft, but it hasn't made much of a difference. How many times do you have to be right before anybody useful notices?

Eh, I'll get over my angst.

narcissistic boomer bullshit, t

He's made an impact

[zogger]

Especially against goldman sachs. Vampire sucking squid is now pretty famous, and even non political, don't follow the econo news (much) folks now know about GS and all the weirdness surrounding them.

As to political impacts in general..brainwashing since birth. The publik skules number #1 job is to force addict little kids into thinking professional team sports is the most important thing in the world, with a subset of unquestioning order following from any "authority" figure, with "zero tolerance" for aber

I think it's too late anyway ...

[tomhudson]

Everyone who watches TV knows you have the right to remain silent.

Just like everyone who watches TV knows about jury nullification (even though you don't talk about it unless you have to).

Besides, telling suspects their rights is all part of the "good cop/bad cop" routine.

Slightly inaccurate

[daemonburrito]

Matt Taibbi suffers from a misapprehension about Ron Paul, as do many of my generation.

The reason I really respect the Ron Paul people is that they’re consistent on all of these things. If they don’t want the government telling you you can’t buy a gun, they also don’t want the federal government telling you not to smoke weed or patronize a prostitute. Paul understands that you can’t make appeals on general principle unless you actually believe in that principle across the board.

This paragraph is technically correct, but oh so misleading. The Campaign for Liberty and affiliated organizations believe that the Federal government should not be able to do these things. The problem is that they believe that individual states can; indeed, they believe that constitutional protections of individual freedom do not apply to states. This belief is a reverberation of arguments that date back to the 1840s, an