That About Sums It Up

Here's a portion of a comment that was a response to this Salon article about Mike Huckabee and his biblical designs on the Constitution:

Why is it that policies set forth under claims of national security, religious conviction, patriotic values and democracy are not subject to the same criticism as independent policy proposals? Is it because these constructs remain extremely effective and highly repeatable insulators to open discourse? Policies put forth under these four umbrellas are packaged in this way just in order to silence dissenting views.

Yeah, why is that?