Regarding the Nazi comparison
 

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com...zy-fringe.html

Excerpts:

The ultimate horrors.in Nazi Germany were, indeed, much more terrible than anything close to what has occurred.so far in America. But,.one should.do more than.only consider just.the ultimate horrors of what went on in Nazi Germany. One must think about the road that was travelled by the Germans to get to that point.
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I believe one of the most serious misunderstandings about totalitarianism is that it arrives as a full package that requires no assembly. That it is put on the people, like a winter coat. All at one time, and in full view for all to see.
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Dehumanization, whether it is groping. or limiting how much money an ethnic group can hold, is still dehumanization. It's the same road. We all know where that road led to in Nazi Germany. Maybe we can learn from history and stop.the US.from heading any further down that road.

Hey, anything can be compared. There is NOTHING inherently wrong with comparing TSA to the Gestapo. One is simply another grade of the same thing as the other. Citing some bogus "law" with the implication that the argument has turned comic is really just an out for lazy minds. You can compare Milgram's experiment with Nazism because, frankly, real Nazism depended on the personality flaw that made the test subjects of Milgram to ignore cries of pain. You can compare a flea to a dinosaur as both being in the animal kingdom. That isn't equivalent to saying "a dinosaur is just a huge flea".

That is beautiful, and so true.

I am troubled by overstatements and overreaction just as I concur with the basic proposition raised by the OP. The problem comes in the headline rather than the content. People to often react to the headlines. In the current case, as in the 1950's US infatuation with what is now called McCarthyism, the US proves willing to discard freedom in favor of order. The words of Benjamin Franklin come to mind.

Sadly the US seems to have come to the point that a majority of the people are willing to allow anybody to carry a concealed weapon or a machine gun just as most seem willing to accept these obnoxious searches. The US seems incapable of generating a consensus for common sense. A very sad state of affairs.

I close this thread.

A disucssion of the time in Germany betw. 1933 and 1945 is not appropriate and leads to topics we really do not want to have here.

Thank your for your understanding

FLYGVA
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