The real threats to our freedom

May 13, 2008

Signs such as "Caution: Coffee is hot" are admittedly idiotic and, therefore, easy to scorn ("The land of the free gives way to a nation of crushing uniformity," Commentary, May 11). But they aren't much of a threat to anybody's individuality or freedom.

Laws such as the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which violates our 800-year-old habeas corpus rights, and the Orwellian-named Protect America Act, which shreds the Fourth Amendment, are such a threat.

But in their Mr. Magoo-like critique of the state of American freedom, Leonard Pitts Jr. and his interviewee, Anna, completely overlook such grave setbacks to our freedom.

Unfortunately, their gaze has been distracted by litigiousness and political correctness - which is a relative sideshow.

Daniel Fleisher

Baltimore

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