[Ohioan]

When I was a boy, people used to wonder how an intelligent, industrious & highly educated people, such as the Germans, could be stampeded into giving a fanatic Austrian Socialist, dictatorial powers, after his supporters used the antics of a mentally disordered Communist to burn the German Parliament.

No it is obvious that burning the Parliament is very serious--as is murdering nine innocent civilians at a Church Bible study. But the space cadet in Charleston, is no more a rational spokesman for anything than was the Communist dupe in Berlin in 1933. That American politicians feel the need to ape the German panic to attack liberty & freedom of expression, in this manner, may tell us more of the future than any loyal American even wants to imagine.

[DiogenesLamp]

When I was a boy, people used to wonder how an intelligent, industrious & highly educated people, such as the Germans, could be stampeded into giving a fanatic Austrian Socialist, dictatorial powers, after his supporters used the antics of a mentally disordered Communist to burn the German Parliament.

For quite awhile now, i've been noticing frightening similarities between 1930s Germany, and Obama's America, up to and including an irrational infatuation with race.

They are trying to turn people they hate into the new Jews.

[LibertyLA]

Remember - they are keeping us safe!

/sarcasm

How did it happen that we are no longer the home of the brave - we seem to be the home of ‘being afraid of everything and begging the government to protect us.’

Note to government I really DON’T need or want you to protect me.

a) You do a crap job of it.
b) The cost of your protection makes mafia protection look cheap.

Now - if it come to and actual, real invasion of this country - ie. actual troop ships, actual enemy aircraft carriers etc. we can have that talk then (and I’ll join up with my fellow armed Americans and fight to the death). But until then, but out of my life. Sell your security to the cowards that need it.