The emphasized part got my attention. When one is so emotionally involved, for what ever reason, the blinders are hard to see past.
"Dershowitz said he “got an email today from a very prominent friend — I’m not going to disclose his name because it was a private email — admitting that I’m right and saying ‘My hatred toward Trump blinds me to your truths.’ That was his email. ‘My hatred for Trump blinds me to your truths. Please stop.’
“And then he said to me, ‘Don’t ever send me another tweet that includes an article that you wrote that helps that son of a b‑‑‑‑.’
And “this is a close friend,” Dershowitz said. “The email starts, ‘I love you. It starts ‘I love you but … .”
DNA has its own language (code), and language requires intelligence. There is no known mechanism by which matter can give birth to information, let alone language. It is unreasonable to believe the world could have happened by chance.
Derschowitz, the civil libertarian, hasn't changed; what has changed is that the principled ideals once defining of liberalism have been abandoned by the Progressive Left in favor of outcome-based politics. I lived through this transition, having once been viewed as "liberal" for my views on individual liberties and more recently being branded as intolerably conservative for the very same views.
Maddy wrote:Derschowitz, the civil libertarian, hasn't changed; what has changed is that the principled ideals once defining of liberalism have been abandoned by the Progressive Left in favor of outcome-based politics. I lived through this transition, having once been viewed as "liberal" for my views on individual liberties and more recently being branded as intolerably conservative for the very same views.
I've seen Derschowitz defend both Israel and debate Glenn Greenwald on the topic of NSA surveilance. The man is no civil libertarian, from what I can tell.
Maddy wrote:Derschowitz, the civil libertarian, hasn't changed; what has changed is that the principled ideals once defining of liberalism have been abandoned by the Progressive Left in favor of outcome-based politics. I lived through this transition, having once been viewed as "liberal" for my views on individual liberties and more recently being branded as intolerably conservative for the very same views.
I've seen Derschowitz defend both Israel and debate Glenn Greenwald on the topic of NSA surveilance. The man is no civil libertarian, from what I can tell.
That's something I haven't seen, and if I need to be corrected in my view of Derschowitz, I'll stand corrected.
Maddy wrote:Derschowitz, the civil libertarian, hasn't changed; what has changed is that the principled ideals once defining of liberalism have been abandoned by the Progressive Left in favor of outcome-based politics. I lived through this transition, having once been viewed as "liberal" for my views on individual liberties and more recently being branded as intolerably conservative for the very same views.
I've seen Derschowitz defend both Israel and debate Glenn Greenwald on the topic of NSA surveilance. The man is no civil libertarian, from what I can tell.
That's something I haven't seen, and if I need to be corrected in my view of Derschowitz, I'll stand corrected.
I'm not surprised that he defends Israel. I don't think he is Chinese.
As for NSA surveillance, of course that is horrendous, but some people who are otherwise very libertarian aren't bothered by it for some reason. John Stossel is an example.
moda0306 wrote:
I've seen Derschowitz defend both Israel and debate Glenn Greenwald on the topic of NSA surveilance. The man is no civil libertarian, from what I can tell.
That's something I haven't seen, and if I need to be corrected in my view of Derschowitz, I'll stand corrected.
I'm not surprised that he defends Israel. I don't think he is Chinese.
As for NSA surveillance, of course that is horrendous, but some people who are otherwise very libertarian aren't bothered by it for some reason. John Stossel is an example.
Ummm... Alan Derschowitz isn't Israeli either... And even if he was, being so doesn't at all preclude one from holding their government's war-crimes to account if they're going to deem themselves a civil libertarian.
Maddy... there's a good debate between Dersch and Chomsky on YouTube. I'd check it out. On the topic of Israel/Palestine.
And as mentioned, there's a Greenwald/Dersch debate on surveillance.
And of course there are some more economically-minded libertarians that don't care about surveillance (like the insufferable (IMO) John Stossel). Any civil-libertarian, though, should very much care about it. I mean, if words are to have meanings.
It's always obvious that it could be a joke. But, that's why the Lord invented sarcasm tags.
Plus, that line is kind of sarcasm embedded within sarcasm. You're making us work too hard.
dualstow wrote:It's always obvious that it could be a joke. But, that's why the Lord invented sarcasm tags.
Plus, that line is kind of sarcasm embedded within sarcasm. You're making us work too hard.
Apparently I'll have to get my sarcasm meter recalibrated. I wonder if it's still in warranty?
