[Razz]

Undoubtedly, there will be some in here shortly to shout at me: "This is America now – shut up and get used to it!"

[neutrino]

"Are you calling me a Nazi? …

Perhaps the shoe fits all too well.

Scary.

[Weirdad]

Referring us to the Google search engine for your "link to the original article" is not the best form. However, I wanted to know where it came from, so checked; and it is locatable on Google, and found that this ominous article apparently comes from the following site:

http://www.jbs.org/reviewonline/072802_transcript.htm

[Henrietta]

ping

[NovemberCharlie]

During the period known as Reconstruction, when defeated Southern states were ruled by military dictatorships, President Andrew Johnson declared: "Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor."

This doesn't track with what I've heard about Johnson. I seem to recall that the Radical Republicans thought he was too soft on the South (he was a Tenneseean), and that the act providing for martial law in the South was the first instance in which Congress overrode a Presidential veto. Or maybe he was speaking sarcastically?