I'm astonished so many DUers are cool with ending Habeas Corpus

[JDPriestly]

263. ProSense, your comment expresses shock but does not

explain why you are shocked. Please explain.

I have not been able to figure out your reading of the language of the bill.

Do you represent the point of view that everything and anything Obama does is OK?

If so, you are already living in the Third Reich.

I have met and talked to a lot of people who lived in the Third Reich -- a lot of them. The ordinary folks, the farmers, the shopkeepers, the teachers, etc. were quite content with the government in the Third Reich, especially in the early years because they were convinced by the propaganda that surrounded them that everything was OK.

Those identified as "socialists" went first. Those who watched and thought and realized what was coming were next to go to the internment camps. People who had silently disagreed but then quietly gone along with things disappeared later along with Jews, deeply troubled Christians and people of conscience as well as those with enemies.

Eventually, the system was attacked from outside and then of course, crumbled.

But ordinary people just lived their lives thinking that while food and commodities were scarce, they had to make the sacrifices for their country, and many of them were willing to sacrifice economically and in terms of their rights out of loyalty to Der Fuhrer.

It is so important to encourage people to question and to think about what is really going on. You are ridiculing legitimate concerns.

I am not accusing you of being a Fascist. I don't think you are. But I would like to tell you that the kind of ridicule you are expressing is the sort of reaction that supports Fascism.

It is easy to ridicule. It is difficult to argue. For those not capable of arguing, of backing up their criticisms of others' ideas, ridicule is an easy response.