Liberals Re: Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Feb 21 09:46:09 PST 2003


Yoshie wrote:
> Liberals don't defend civil liberties -- or any other component of
> liberal democracy -- in a time of crisis. Left to liberals alone, we
> would have no civil liberties, not to mention liberal democracy.
> Crucially with regard to such cases as Rwanda and Yugoslavia,

So, a good liberal democrat should necessarily advocate standing aside in cases of mass ethnic cleansing? That's perverse.

-- Luke



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