An interview with former Congressman Bob Barr, a conservative who is fighting the Patriot Act. He is rising above his reputation as a political hack to unite liberals and conservatives against government excess. Includes some unbelievable quotes (i.e. coming from Barr)
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=5376_snip_
Q: At the same time, it seems to many people that the staunchest defenders of civil liberties have not been conservatives, but liberals. Do you think this is true, and if not, why not?
A: At the core, liberals and conservatives alike share an interest in protecting individual liberties, especially those embodied in the Bill of Rights, against government efforts to take them away.
As Grover Norquist, who heads Americans for Tax Reform, and a member of Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, has said, for many years conservatives assumed that liberals, such as the ACLU, would be the people's watchdog for civil liberties; and that when these liberties were threatened, we as conservatives could rely on the ACLU to go to court and to the legislature, to protect us.
No longer can conservatives sit back and rely on liberals to protect our rights; we have to be involved, too. Conservatives, like liberals, must become actively enjoined in the fight to protect civil liberties in the wake of the government's response to the attacks of 9/11. If we do not join together, we will lose the battle.
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