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could counter-balance the kind of just runaway,
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bandit capitalism of the worst excesses of capitalism,
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and that in America we live in a country where civil rights,
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civic and civil rights, are saluted but which human rights are
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there are no human rights encoded in the United States;
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thus Guantanamo Bay, thus exceptional rendering to torture camps here and there,
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because there isn't an assumption that human rights count;
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civil rights is what counts, and the way you get civil rights
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is becoming an American citizen or permanent residents;
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thus the big debate, which I'm not getting into, about immigration in this country,
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which is a very, very big debate.
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But I always sort of viewed that Europe would, well,