Originally Posted by
stockmanjr
When people are getting rounded up and being put into labor camps or when others are sent to special security lines because of their race/religion then your argument is valid. I'm Jewish and I am completely and utterly offended by your comparisons. I know your going to say that it's about the attitude but let's face it you can complain to your airline or the TSA directly. The people in you used in your comparison had no voice..
And assuming the one speaking knows who he's supposed to try to talk to in the first place here, he promptly gets ignored (at best). This strikes me as not too dissimilar, in certain respects.
No, they aren't rounding people up here in America yet - and it may well (pray to the deity of your choice) never come to that. However, to continue the example despite your statement of offense, Nazi Germany didn't spring full-blown from Adolf's forehead one morning. There was an ever-growing trend of abuses by those 'legitimately' placed in power, each building on the one before, and people of all sorts there just let it happen.
Letting abuse of power occur unopposed ON ANY LEVEL just encourages expansion of that abuse.