Reply #5: This is one of the things that disgusts me most about BushCo

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Running around smirking about loving freedom and all that rot, and yet using tactics that historically have been used by facist dictatorships such as the Soviet Union and China.

See, in school, I remember it being taught that this was bad, bad, bad. The lack of things like this was one of the things that made our country special.

We had 'due process'.

Now, we are no better than these other countries that we've been pointing our finger at for nearly half a decade. We have our gulag. Dissent is squelched.

There are 'Free Speech Zones'. :puke:

There is the unPATRIOTic Act, which is probably the single most unconstitutional piece of legislation in the US.

There is torture and 'preemptive self defense' invasions.

And what scares me most, is that there is a very large part of the populace who thinks that all this is a-okay.

Because for me, all of the above sound like very un-American traits.