The ACLU writes in an open letter:
“We are tired of living in a nation governed by fear instead of the principles of freedom and liberty that made this nation great.”
Writes Joel Gehrke the Washington Examiner of Mr. Obama and the ACLU:
It’s strange to read in light of Obama’s disavowal of Bush. “[T]oo often — our government made decisions based upon fear rather than foresight, and all too often trimmed facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions,” Obama said in 2009. “Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, we too often set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And in this season of fear, too many of us — Democrats and Republicans; politicians, journalists and citizens — fell silent.”
