Just a few weeks ago GOPers were praising Ayn Rand Paul and Crazy Cruz for defending civil liberties
Now Republicans are angry that the Obama Administration won't try the Boston Bombing suspect as an "enemy combatant" even though he's an American citizen?
This is why you can't take Republicans seriously.
Republicans don't give a shit about civil liberties. They have paranoid minds:
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There’s a common thread linking conservatives’ positions on gun control, immigration, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: the constant need to stoke fear.
But it isn’t liberals who are jumping the gun here. As usual, conservatives are rushing to judgment, shredding the Constitution, using the bombing as an pretext for derailing immigration reform, and generally seeking any excuse to reimpose their paranoid and authoritarian worldview, which needs fear like a vampire needs blood, on the rest of us.
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The common thread through all of this is the conservative need to instill and maintain a level of fear in the populace.
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And with regard to terrorism, they need people to live in fear of the next attack, because fear makes people think about death, and thinking about death makes people more likely to endorse tough-guy, law-and-order, Constitution-shredding actions undertaken on their behalf.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/22/the-conservative-paranoid-mind.html
