[lbo-talk] Re: Welcome to Weimar

Michael Dawson -PSU mdawson at pdx.edu
Fri Jan 30 10:45:04 PST 2004



> Of course the Bushies are full of unfreedom and schemes to
> circumscribe individual freedom of thought and action, but still
> that's a big rhetorical difference. How does that fit in with the
> Weimar/Strauss/Shickelgruber analogy?
>
> Doug

Yes, and the left makes itself look stupid and hyperbolic by stressing this issue so much, to the exclusion of the bigger problem, which is the continuing upward transfer of wealth and downward creation of danger and disease.

The Bill of Rights has not been suspended. Courts are already finding parts of the Patriot Act unconstitutional. The vast majority of people have not lost any rights yet. True, the PA is a terrible precedent, but painting it as Hitler's wedge is crazy and politically suicidal.



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