[Domalais]

Now, perhaps you could tell me exactly what it is that separates us from this particular government taking over the most worthwhile aspects of American life and the justification they would use to do it?

You are attempting to deflect my comment by bringing up a completely unrelated strawman argument.

In response, there are a great many things that prevent that. If you think that the 2nd amendment is the first solution to that possibility that should be considered, I would suggest psychiatric help.


Our ideological enemies have already begun the process of seizing our property through their plans to redistribute wealth. What's next on the agenda, and what lie will they use to perpetrate it?

I don't know, but until we start being massacred and buried in anonymous graves, let's not compare the difficulties of being a conservative in America with thousands of years of religious persecution suffered by the Jews.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I'm doing no such thing. I'm drawing a comparison between two similar attacks -- the attack of a totalitarian government on 1930s Germany on people with whom it disagreed and the attack of individuals who would surely like to be totalitarian upon us.

But, if you disagree with me, you might want to check out the words of Alan Dershowitz on the subject:

"“The term ‘blood libel’ has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origins were in theologically based false accusations against the Jews and the Jewish People, its current usage is far broader. I myself have used it to describe false accusations against the State of Israel by the Goldstone Report. There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations that her words or images may have caused a mentally disturbed individual to kill and maim. The fact that two of the victims are Jewish is utterly irrelevant to the propriety of using this widely used term.” ~ Alan Dershowitz

But hey, Abraham Foxman agrees with you. Your trip to the shrink will be shorter than mine, sir.

[arasina]

I don't know, but until we start being massacred and buried in anonymous graves, let's not compare the difficulties of being a conservative in America with thousands of years of religious persecution suffered by the Jews.

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

--Martin Niemöller--

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

Today one might say "Those who want to hold the past in memory as if it were theirs and theirs alone are condemned to be complicit in its recurrence."