I think I do. And whether I do or not, the Gestapo had to start somewhere. Maybe with an act authorizing the surveillance of domestic "troublemakers"?
2) Your ability to discern your surroundings is severely lacking compared to most people.
I don't know. I suspect a lot of people are alarmed by the Patriot Act. I seem to recall some commotion about it here and there. Not among The Faithful, of course. They would follow George Bush off a cliff. But a few have strayed from the path of blind faith, and they're asking embarrassing questions.
3) You would fit in just fine with Howard Dean, Al Gore, and the rest of the Democrats; you speak the same language.
And you would fit in well with the Brownshirts. You seem appropriately offended that anyone would dare question the Glorious Leader.
Although only Sharpton would think to throw in the lines relating to prayers.
But he would make them rhyme.
Republicans can do no wrong.
Republicans can do no wrong.
Republicans can do no wrong.
Maybe with an act authorizing the surveillance of domestic "troublemakers"?Make up your mind- do you know about the Gestapo, or not? If you knew about them, how they got started and what they did, you wouldn't be asking.
But I do like the "maybe" game. Maybe they got started with an act authorizing the surveillance of domestic troublemakers.
Maybe they got started as a group that would spread lies and propaganda and try to scare people; maybe the Patriot Act isn't the start of the Gestapo, maybe you are!
Maybe they got started by responding to a newspaper ad!
Maybe!
But no, actually it was none of those things. The Gestapo was created by an act (Geheimes Polizei Act) directly. They were a secret police, from the start. And from the start, they were "little more than a personal instrument of terror employed by Goering to arrest and murder opponents of the regime." [Rise and Fall of the Third Reich]
They didn't sort of evolve. They were created to fill the role that they did, right from the start.
So when you see a Geheimes Polizei Act, then your Gestapo cry will have some basis in reality. Right now it just makes you look like a paranoid old fool who sounds exactly like Michael Moore.