◼ Big Government’s Abuses of Power, Monitoring AP but not detaining Tamerlan Tsarnaev — there is a common theme. - Victor Davis Hanson/National Review
Right now, that party line seems to include protecting the progressive interests of the Obama administration, going after its critics, turning a blind eye toward illegal abortions, ignoring warnings about radical Islam, and restricting the right to free speech in order to curtail language declared potentially hurtful.
Conspiracists, left and right, are sometimes understandably derided as paranoids for alleging that Big Government steadily absorbs the private sector, violates private communications, targets tax filers it doesn’t like, and lies to the people about what it is up to. The only missing theme of such classic paranoia is the perennial worry over the right to bear arms.
...Who knows, but yesterday’s wacky conspiracist may become today’s Nostradamus.
