The Times morphs into Lew Rockwell

If the New York Times’ suspicion of possible government abuses were carried out to its logical conclusion, writes Heather Mac Donald, government itself would have to cease to exist (at least as long as a Republican were in the White House). As she puts it:

The paranoia of the New York Times’s editors really has reached astonishing levels. When you think about it, virtually every piece of evidence ever gathered in criminal or national security cases is embedded in harmless activity. On the Times’ theory, police officers should not walk beats looking for criminal activity, because they are observing innocent passersby as well.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 14, 2006 06:26 PM | Send