Combating Libel Lawfare
Radical Islam's apologists abuse courts to shut down criticism.
by Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review Online
May 22, 2009
https://www.legal-project.org/343/combating-libel-lawfare
Excerpt:
It has become fashionable in Washington to speak of "false choices" — "the false choice between our values and our security" or "the false choice between our liberties and our national defense," for example. Apparently, we don't need to make these choices.
I often wonder, while standing in the body-search line while trying to get on an airplane, or trying to get into Yankee Stadium, or trying to enter a federal courthouse, whether any sensible person really thinks the conflict between the things we want to do and the security we need to do them is a "false choice." Most people, I would guess, view such choices as a matter of common sense, and an inevitable part of life.
To make such choices is often hard, calling for maturity and judgment. To deny that they have to be made is childish and irrational.
It is not a matter of choosing between, for example, our security and our values. Our security is one of our values. Indeed, it is the one that makes the liberties we cherish more than mere parchment promises.
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