A reader writes:
Thanks for your post regarding Ann Althouse and her Grand Blinking Conspiracy and the death of habeas corpus. Isn't it just fabulous watching 800 years of jurisprudence and a cornerstone of Western civilization get treated like so much birdcage liner?
This shouldn't be a surprise though. Where communism is the endpoint of leftist extremism, fascism is the endpoint of the extremist right. In either case, the State is all and the individual but a footnote. I think the Founders must be crying in Heaven right now.
I do think Godwin's rule needs to be amended somewhat in the age of Cheney and Bush. And I do think the logical consequence of the denialist far right at the moment is indeed closer to Schmitt than to Burke.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2006/12/email-of-the-day/231961/
