This "totalitarian" government did not put any Tea Baggers into "Free Speech Zones"

[Winterblues]

Imagine that? :crazy:

[NJmaverick]

1. K&R for an excellent reminder!

[Ernesto]

11. ditto! nt

[defendandprotect]

2. Great point . . . while they are "spit" on officials and are "gun toters" . . . Wow!!

Presumably, all of that is good for democracy and debate!!

[Blue_Tires]

3. no loyalty oaths, either

[HughBeaumont]

4. Imagine, also . . .

. . . if any of us "leftists" appeared at a President Bewsh II event brandishing a firearm.

Right, we wouldn't be typing this today.

[HopeHoops]

5. Free Speech Zones - That's just SO old Dubya news.

Damn - and we somehow survived eight years of those assholes.

[tom_paine]

6. Ironically, this continual double-standard in almost all walks of life is characteristic of

totalitarianism, but the very opposite totalitarianism that the Teabaggers/Brownshirts are being frightened of by their lying Corporate Masters. RW Authoritarianism, driven by the Bush-Cheney faction's takeover of the Republican Party.

Ironically, our Empire HAS degenerated into a quasi totalitarianism (Google "Inverted Totalitarianism") that is driven by the Corporate Oligarchy built on lessons of history and infused with more Plausible Deniability than the Nazis ever needed to bother with.

Where will it go, eventually? I cannot guess, though I suspect our choices remain Far-Right Corporate Neofeudalism or Uber-Right Nazi-like State, depending on the breaks. Our Democrats are in many way reliving the role of the German Social Democrats of the 1930s.

The Teabagger Phenomena and it's privilged treatement by RW dominated Law Enforcement, while at he same time it portrays itself as the victim, is nothing new. Nazi Brownshirts were basically the same way, ascribing massive conspiratorial power to the Jewish Community, accusing it of serial lying, propaganda, and a desire to take over the world, when that is EXACTLY what the Nazis THEMSELVES WERE!

Today, Liberals, African-Americans and Illegal Immigrants are the New Jews. How far will things go and in what direction? No one can accurately predict. Maybe Far-Right Corporate Neofeudalism, maybe something much darker and more Uber-Right.

But, as we shouldn't expect Brownshirts to be treated by Law Enforcement like Jews in 1930s Germany, neither should we expect Teabaggers to be treated like Liberals in 21st Century America.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. For a totalitarian government

President Obama's administration has been behaving, well, rather "un-totalitarian" (except in the teabaggers' and Beck's fevered imaginations).

[Captain Hilts]

8. GOOD point!!!!

[PufPuf23]

9. One wonders why there are not "free-carry zones"

for those that want to bear firearms.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

10. Excellent Points, All

I plan to use them whenever I hear some blowhard Teabagger verbally defecating about how Obama hates the Constitution.

[kentuck]

12. And they never said anything when Bush was putting us in them..

behind wired fences, out of sight, with our little signs. Because we were a "threat" to Bush and the government? We know what they are willing to defend, don't we? Certainly not our rights.

[Hydra]

13. You know, nothing else screams "state sponsered"

More than the fact that they aren't...other than the fact that they are being taken seriously in groups of 5000, when were were in groups of hundreds of thousands protesting the wars...and no report.

[Soulis]

14. K & FUCKING R!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[lonestarnot]

15. And teabaggers don't consider that we HAVEN'T forgotten any of that shit.

Because apparently they don't consider ANYTHING.