Existential Charters

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I just finished reading a New York Times editorial “Is the Supreme Court About to Kill Off the Exclusionary Rule?” that ended with this line:

“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly,” the [Federal Supreme Court noted in Mapp v. Ohio], “than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”

I also just finished reading Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King movie download (which you can download free under Creative Commons).

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2 Responses to “Existential Charters”

Angelina on February 16th, 2009

The parallels between the Times’ column and Doctorow’s forward are scary. Thanks for writing about this.

bec on February 25th, 2009

Can I needle you here about reading Cory Doctorow? I thought you were totally annoyed by him…

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