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BRIAN DOHERTY on the latest militia scare. ?What the likes of Clinton, Klein, and Maddow realize, t?

By Glenn Reynolds

BRIAN DOHERTY on the latest militia scare. “What the likes of Clinton, Klein, and Maddow realize, to their great chagrin, is that that power is faltering in the age of the Internet, with the cable news networks aiming for smaller targeted ideological audiences. This makes them so angry they feel it necessary to conflate or link their ideological enemies with mass murderers. . . . An America where, as Churchill writes, ‘the libertarian memory of the American revolution was transformed from a mainstream creed to a badge of extremism’ and in which ‘unquestioning loyalty and obedience to the nation state’ has become standard may be more conducive to domestic peace and order?at least in a tautological sense. But that transformation also enables a destructive set of policies, both overseas and domestically, that are more damaging to the property and liberty of Americans than any militia member or Tea Partier, however angry or irrational, will ever be.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 24, 2010 (boomark / email).