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"If you are an Obama partisan who insists the crackdown is appropriate
because your favored politician is in power, take heed of the
president’s own warning. As he said a few years ago, allowing any
executive to ignore the Constitution is problematic because 'you never
know who is going to be president four years from now.'
You also never know what other executive might make the same moves in
your own hometown. After all, if a president is arguing that
indictments, juries and trials aren’t necessary to execute someone, it’s
not hard to imagine a governor or mayor arguing the same thing when
locking people up.
That’s why this war on whistleblowers is not just some theoretical
problem only for academics to debate or for foreigners to worry about.
It represents a genuine domestic threat to democracy itself. If through
our silence and complacency we allow that threat to expand, we shouldn’t
be surprised when more of us are in the government’s crosshairs."
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