Reply #175: We don't need those things.

[txaslftist]

The astronomical unemployment rate was not a result of fascism, it was a cause of it. We don't need an ultra-reich wing force to battle leftist demonstrators, because there aren't any violent leftist demonstrators.

What we have lost is simply the whole bill of rights.

Because if the executive can designate you a certain kind of person, an "enemy of the state" or an "enemy combatant" or whatever, and lock you up forever, you don't live in a free country anymore, pal. And our executive can do that. He can also spy on you (he has), wiretap your phone (he has), ship you off to a torture palace or torture you right here in our own Gitmo (he has done this, too).

You don't like it when we are compared to Nazi Germany? Shit, Nazi Germany wasn't that bad, for ordinary German folks. Up until the Russians and Americans arrived, they were doing pretty good, all things considered. Of course, it was the shit for the Jews and other "undesirables" and "dissidents", but if you kept your mouth reasonably shut and didn't pose a threat, you were fine.

You don't like it when "alarmists" compare us to Nazi Germany? Fine. But don't think for a second you live in a free country or that we're any great shakes.