New York Times on my mind

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This New York Times editorial is so over the top that it is, ineluctably, the first self-fisking exposition in history.  The mind stops at nearly every phrase, summoning stored refutations, past vexations, and blue rage over the displayed pomposity and chutzpah.  Our  legal system had their heads in a noose for treason, and let them slide.  That's the crime.  Had Mohamed Atta instead slammed his hijacked jets into the Times building, September 1st would be a national holiday, the passengers grieved over, but accorded national hero status for their sacrifice.   I'm not making that up. The Must-Do List Published: March 4, 2007 The Bush administration’s assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections. The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that the Republican majority rubber-stamped. But preventing new assaults on civil liberties is not nearly enough. Five years of presidential overreaching and Congressional collaboration continue to exact a high toll in human lives, America’s global reputation and the architecture of democracy. Brutality toward prisoners, and the denial of their human rights, have been institutionalized; unlawful spying on Americans continues; and the courts are being closed to legal challenges of these practices. Continue fisking.