[Hemingway's Ghost]

It was a badge of honor to Germans who hated Nazism. It was a badge of honor to Italians who hated Fascism. It was a badge of honor to Russians who hated Stalinism and Communism. It was a badge of honor to Cambodians who hated Pol Pot.

Finally, it was a badge of honor to American Colonists who hated England.

It's interesting you had to use totalitarian or semi-totalitarian examples to make your point. Let me know when the U.S. Congress decides to criminalize, by fiat, being a Jew.

[dirtboy]

It's interesting you had to use totalitarian or semi-totalitarian examples to make your point. Let me know when the U.S. Congress decides to criminalize, by fiat, being a Jew.

Naw, FDR did that with Japanese-Americans back during WWII. What we have today is the Bush Administration saying it can declare someone an "enemy combatant", and then detain them indefinitely without trial - and they are even going so far as to claim the judiciary has no right to review the matter - a de facto claim that they wish habeas corpus to be suspended for those people.

[Lazamataz]

It's interesting you had to use totalitarian or semi-totalitarian examples to make your point.

Precisely, and the tools for such a totalitarian or semi-totalitarian state are being crafted before our very eyes.