Freedom of what, exactly?

[theweaselking]

The founder of USA Today, who served as an infantryman in WWII in France, Germany, and the Philllipines, and won a Bronze Star, expressed in an editorial that he thinks trops in Iraq should be brought home "sooner, rather than later".

Now there are people calling for him to be imprisoned for *treason* - defined, in this case, as "expressing disagreement with George Bush".

An example:

Mel Gibbs: "The Patriot Act will put both of you (Neuharth and Mitchell) on trial for treason and convict and execute both of you as traitors for running these stories in a time of war and it should be done on TV for other communist traitors like you two to know we mean business. This is war and you should be put in prison NOW for talking like this. Who the hell do you people think you are?
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Your families should be put in prison with you, then be made to leave and move to the Middle East ...
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Communists like Al and Greg will soon be in prison and on death row for your ugly papers.
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We own America and all the rights, you people are trash, go back to Russia and Africa and take your friends with before we put you on death row."

Comments

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

I should probably get a firing squad then. *hides*

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

"Their dissent equals treason." "It's sad we didn't join Hitler until he wiped out the USSR." "This is a great Christian nation and god wants us to lead the world out of darkness with great leaders..." "We own America and all the rights..." All of that is blatantly radically conservative totalitarianism.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Well, yes.

You are familiar with the neoconservative doctrine of Christian Dominion, expressed and supported by George Bush?

"You dumb fucks", once again, applies.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to succumb to Godwin's Law and call it what it's commonly called, but I figure you can guess that for yourself.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Mike Godwin wrote that the comparison to Hitler or Nazis was inevitable. All other interpretations of what reaching the Godwin Point (the point at which the comparison is made) means are corrolaries.

And 44% of Americans apparently believe Arab-Americans should need to wear crescent-armbands and live in special places where they can be watched carefully.

Kenn (publius1) believes that you're heading into Joe McCarthy-land, version 2.0, with gays and Arabs instead of communists and Russians. I think he's optimistic.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

The base of the Republican party is a bunch of bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging fascists, whose thoughts are so convoluted and inconsistent that it's a miracle they can function on a daily basis.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Ummm... so, that Gamer militia my friends were discussing? Yeah, should maybe look into that.

Every time I think they can't freak me out any more...