Originally Posted by HigherFlyer
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Some of my relatives died in poland because they didn't speak out against the nazis soon enough. ...
When I see fascism, I won't wait for someone else to point it out. Especially when said fascists start profiling those around me, restricting travel, rounding up people who dissent and puting them in concentration camps to be tortured (see Guantanamo), and especially when they claim powers not given them by our constitution.
If you dislike being compared to a jack booted thug, you should change proffessions.
There is absolutely no secret on this board that I am
not a TSA fan, but there is sufficient actual cause to do away with it (or, at the very least, totally revamp its procedures) that there is no need to falsify either history or current events.
1. Nobody died in Poland because they didn't speak out against the Nazis soon enough. Poland did not elect the Nazis. Germany invaded Poland. There was absolutely no connection between any lack of anti-Nazi sentiment and the invasion.
2. Fascism was a form of government distinctive to Italy. There were major differences between it and even its closest allies, the German Nazis and the Spanish Falangists. There is certainly no comparison between the U.S. government and the Fascists.
3. Nobody has been "rounded up" and put in Guatanamo. All the prisoners there were captured in Afghanistan. While it is possible that some were taken by error, it is unquestioned that they were believed to be members of the Taliban (and that the overwhelming majority of them were).
If those who dislike the TSA (again, like myself) are to have any hope of having it abolished or reformed, they have to eschew hyperbole and baseless accusations and concentrate on the agency's real abuses and lack of effectiveness.