Originally Posted by roachboy

mojo: perhaps you should think about what i was trying to say this way: when it comes to displays of paramilitary type order on the part of federal or state authorities, the right seems to go all weak at the knees and puts aside any concern about abrogation of civil liberties that may follow from cheerleading such actions. this tendency directly contradicts most conservative views of the state in other areas. how does this hold together? personally, i think it is yet another space in which conservative ideology is incoherent. but prove me wrong. i'd be happy to see an actual argument.