BY JIM HIGHTOWER The very fine public servant, Russ Feingold, cautioned against the steady slippage of our democracy toward autocracy back in October 2001, when he stood tall as the only U.S. aenator to vote against the Patriot Act. Warning that its anti-democratic provisions would create a nation “where the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications,” Feingold rightly concluded: “That country wouldn’t be America.” […]
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