Jim Devine wrote:
>On 2/16/06, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
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>>The issue in dispute is whether I use the word excessively or whether you and others don't use it enough. You are asserting as true without supporting argument your position on what is in dispute.<
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>Okay, then what kind of evidence or logic would convince you that the
>United States is not currently on the road to fascism (or already
>there)?
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>To convince me that fascism is here, I'd have to see large numbers --
>thousands -- of US citizens being treated in the same way that the
>prisoners in Guantanamo are being treated (incarcerated without legal
>basis, not charged, tortured). I might be in jail myself. The ACLU
>wouldn't be allowed to appeal. You wouldn't see members of the leading
>(vanguard?) party complaining about restrictions on civil liberties.
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Well, actually, the story about prisons in the U.S. since the late
seventies has been pretty horrific.
Joanna
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