Civil liberties disappear in the 2012 Democratic platform.

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174. Care to address the language that was removed?

The neoDemocrats' contributions to the new party platform are clearly reflected in the omission of this critical civil rights language....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,
*hints strongly at 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 level of desperation we are seeing to obscure, obfuscate, and distract from these important changes, as well as to pollute the threads with vapid insults and filler...shows how important these changes really are...and how important misdirection from them is considered to be.

We have a deadly serious, malignant problem with corporate money in our electoral process. It is well past time to acknowledge that it is infecting and changing the Democratic Party, too...