Electronic Frontier Foundation Praises the Tea Party, FreedomWorks and Klayman

[Blue_Tires]

Yesterday, tax day, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted an article titled “Tea Party, Taxes and Why the Original Patriots Would’ve Revolted Against the Surveillance State,” and it wouldn’t surprise me if the authors were wearing tri-corner hats with hand-written “Rand Paul 4 Prez” placards stacked up on their desks while they hammered out the post.

The EFF is, in its own words, “the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world,” and has stationed itself on the front lines in the battle against the National Security Agency and the intelligence community. It’s best known recently for pursuing NSA to release an 85-page opinion from the FISA Court detailing an operation a FISA judge had ruled unconstitutional.

Believe it or not, I admired the EFF’s strategy on this FISA matter. Rather than clandestinely horking documents from an inside source, it pursued NSA through perfectly legitimate means, specifically the Freedom of Information Act. That said, this article and its irresponsible lionization of the tea party is a huge red flag, as well as a further indication of an emerging and ill-advised alliance between the libertarian far-right and the far-left.

It’s difficult to find a more ridiculous whitewashing of the tea party outside of the tea party itself. The legacy of the founders? Wow. First of all, the tea party doesn’t even understand the actual Boston Tea Party, much less the intent of the founders. Yet the heretofore respected EFF has bedazzled the tea party with the gilded legacy of the almighty founders. As for the leaders the tea party has elected, is there one — just one — who’s not completely nuts or totally unqualified for the post?

It gets worse...


http://thedailybanter.com/2014/04/electronic-frontier-foundation-praises-the-tea-party-freedomworks-and-birther-larry-klayman/

[frazzled]

1. For those would share in these sentiments ...

saying they "don't have to agree with everything" the Tea Party, Larry Klayman, and Rand Paul have to say, but wholly agree on this issue — that's kind of like someone in the 1930s saying that, although they don't agree with everything the Führer has to say, they wholly agree that fresh air and exercise are good for our children, and that our Aryan youth are certainly fine specimens!

In other words, dont. go. there. It's meaningless to cherry pick rather than looking at the big picture.

[MADem]

2. Well. Isn't THAT special!

Ed Snowden has one of those stickers proudly displayed on his laptop!

What the article fails to mention is that Klayman is hardly motivated by privacy-rights or the unconstitutionality of illegal searches, Klayman simply likes to sue people. Hell, he sued his own mother. He sued Clinton 18 times, he sued Dick Cheney and now he’s suing Obama.
On top of his very frivolous lawsuits, Klayman is an Alex-Jonesian Birther crackpot who despises the LGBT “agenda,” and who’s openly discussed overthrowing the president who he thinks should “put the Quran down.” This is the lunatic who the EFF is embracing. Are they really this stupid? Don’t they know? If not, here’s Right Wing Watch with the harrowing details.
And while we’re talking about privacy rights, perhaps the EFF should quiz the tea party and Klayman about where they stand on privacy as it pertains to a woman’s right to choose. Just suggesting.

It's hilarious...only it's not. It's just so ... pathetic!

And apparently they really ARE that stupid!

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Bingo ...

further indication of an emerging and ill-advised alliance between the libertarian far-right and the far-left.

Yep!

[OnyxCollie]

4. Can't be any worse

than the alliance between the Obama administration's NSA and the Carlyle Group's Booz Allen Hamilton.