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In reply to the discussion: Civil liberties disappear in the 2012 Democratic platform. [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)so the critical information gets lost.
Meanwhile, the neoDemocratic Party platform not only omits these critical civil rights.....while our President pursues/defends but remains publicly silent on targeted assassinations, strip searches, internet ID plans, indefinite detention, drone surveillance, and the new spy center in Utah for warrantless access to all our emails and phone calls...
....The new platform also
*defends the death penalty,
*commits to lowering the corporate tax rate,
*withdraws previous support for card-check to make it easier to form unions
*misleads on housing,
*signals support for the Keystone pipeline,
*and specifically fails to include language opposing cuts to Medicare and Social Security:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/04-11