Maher: Privacy under attack

Liberal comic Bill Maher said Friday that Americans aren’t losing their Second Amendment rights — just “all the other ones,” and then compared the country to a strip club without strippers.

“It’s not your Second Amendment rights that are under attack — it’s all the other ones,” Maher said on HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday, citing online privacy laws, search warrants and airport screenings.


He later quipped: “The Redcoats, they never wanted your gun — they wanted your liberty. And that’s why the Founding Fathers said you could have the gun, dumba—, and now the only right we have left is the guns and nothing left to use the guns to protect — we’re like a strip club with a million bouncers and no strippers.”

Maher also referenced the film “ Zero Dark Thirty,” starring Jessica Chastain as a military agent who helps find intelligence — partly through the use of torture — from terrorists to locate Osama Bin Laden. He said that Democrats and Republicans are to blame for what he thinks is a loss of freedoms.

“Doesn’t anyone care that this is the new normal? I guess not, because gun nuts don’t care, and neither do liberals. When [former President George W. Bush] did warrantless wiretapping: ‘Oh, he was wiping his a— with the Constitution.’ But when Obama does it, ‘Oh well, whatever helps Jessica Chastain find bin Laden. We’re good with that,’” Maher said.

He continued: “Yeah, both parties compete mightily to appear to be the greater champion of our freedoms, but the only thing that still has bipartisan support in Washington is not giving a sh-t about privacy.”