I stand with Thaddeus Stevens.

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For those of you who haven't seen the movie Lincoln, you missed this part!

Let me put it this way. I think of the people cheerleading the NSA Stasi Police State, and gleefully flinging poo for the Official McCarthyist Witchhunt of Edward Snowden, especially here on DU, in the same way that Thaddeus Stevens thought about people defending slavery.

Any questions?

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2. Huh. It works for me. Maybe Youtube's being flaky. n/t

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3. Or here's the money quote from Stevens:

How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands stinking the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men are inferior. Endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold pallid slime in their veins instead of hot red blood. You are more reptile than man George, so low and flat that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you.