What is wrong with all the folks who want to jail those nitwits who snuck in to see Obama?
Are we the new Soviet Union?
Anybody remember Mathias Rust?
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
These people did us (and Obama) a favor.....they identified a security breach.
Going after them hard legally makes no sense unless they committed felonies to get admitted AND have things in their record suggesting that they were bent on doing mischief once they got in.
I've stayed away from DK for a while as people here have seemed to lose perspective over the basics of what liberalism is ever since the election. This mad rush to toss those interloping, star (or money)-struck idiots who crashed the President's recent event is only the most recent glaring manifestation of this perspective loss.
This is a short diary, because my time is limited, and because this is basic stuff, or should be. I made it a diary because comments get drowned here, and because I haven't been writing diaries, and have not been abusing the system. Besides, this is important.......it applies to anyone with a specific agenda (specific issues, or specific group advocacy). I have an important message to send to some (by no means all, or even most) here.
Do a perspective test before you rant. Ask yourself if what you are doing is in fact congruent with liberalism, or on the other hand, whether what you write could have been written by a wingnut if you just change a few nouns.
Sometimes the fruits of righteous indignation are embarrassingly wrong.
Let's stop embarrassing ourselves - it only helps the forces that we ALL are against.