Civil liberties disappear in the 2012 Democratic platform.

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144. More important information about the platform

Thank you for this important OP. The neoDemocrats' contributions to the new party platform are clearly reflected in the omission of 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...

These are not the only disturbing changes reflecting right-wing views of the Third Way and the corporate one percent. 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:

Here is a good article detailing the bad AND good aspects of the platform: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/04-11


The importance of your OP is made clear by the level of desperation we are seeing in attempts by the serial defenders of the corporate one percent to obscure, mischaracterize, and misdirect, as well as pollute the threads with vapid insults and filler. Thank you for your persistence, because it is important that Americans see what is really being done to our party and our country as a result of corporate money in our electoral system....now in the Democratic Party, too.