Originally Posted by channa
I think the point was made. The Holocaust was a tragedy, but it was also a hidden agenda by the administration, who at the time had the majority support of the people.
The shoe carnival is only a small part of the very big problem that's begun to develop -- with the patriot act, random road checkpoints, ID requirements, no-fly lists, etc.
Of course W isn't going to come out and say he wants to come out and turn America into a totalitarian regime. He'd never get support. But if the American people are ignorant enough to hand over their rights one by one...
While we aren't there yet, and I don't mean any disrespect for the Holocaust losses, there are many parallels between the current administration and Hitler's. As the other poster said, it does start a little bit at a time...
As a matter of fact, one of Goebbels' favorite lines was tell the people a lie often enough, and they will begin to see it as the truth. Any thinking, rational person can deduce that multiple ID checks and shoe inspections do nothing to make us safer. Yet the administration continues to bluster about a non-existent cause-and effect scenario that reasons that a lack of stateside terror attacks confirms that security "procedures" are effective.
London is a living proof that if suicide bombers want to perpetrate an attack, they will. the only thing that can stop a suicide bomber (other than decent intelligence) are complete, constant searches, which would completely cripple the nation. If it comes to that, we definitely lost the "war on terror".