Civil liberties disappear in the 2012 Democratic platform.

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220. That response is dismissive of reality.

If smearing Mother Jones for conservative leanings is the best you can do, you are really struggling here.

And what nonsense to say the removal is "bullshit." The very specific civil rights language was there in 2008. It is gone in 2012. Why on earth would the Democratic Party choose to remove it?

The disappearance of this language is disturbing in the context of a great deal of recent news coming out of our government, all your protestations notwithstanding. We have seen this administration back indefinite detention, "kill lists" and targeted assassinations. They have chosen not to "fix" the Patriot Act as promised, or to close Guantanamo. The Obama administration went all the way to the Supreme Court to argue FOR warrantless GPS surveillance and FOR strip searches for any arrestee. They are expanding budget funding for our prison system and cracking down on low level offenses including medical marijuana instead of imprisoning torturers or banksters. Our President joked publicly about and defends TSA groping, and TSA has expanded their reach under his term. His administration has provided grants for the provision of military drones to police departments across the country and approved the proliferation of military and nonmilitary drones in American skies. President Obama has been silent on the increased militarization of police departments across the country, and silent on brutal attacks on peaceful OWS protesters and targeting, surveillance, and entrapment of OWS members by police departments. The administration is quietly developing plans for an internet ID, and Obama has signed and supported legislation, including ACTA and Lieberman's bill (yes, even *before* minimal privacy protections were added to it...) for greater internet control by government and corporations. And Obama is devastatingly silent on the new, massive NSA spy center that will allow the government and some corporations access to all American's emails and phone calls.

The civil rights language was removed between 2008 and 2012. Why on earth would the Democratic Party remove this language?