Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Robert J. Kolker wrote:
> 
> >> No you don't. You hate the Bush administration which is busy subverting
> >> every political ideal ever held sacred in the USA.
> > 
> > If I held my breath waiting for the anti-war protesters to be carried 
> > off to the Gulag I would turn purple and die. Civil liberties are in no 
> > peril at this time, in the U.S.. That does not mean they won't be in 
> > peril in the future. We are engaged in a war, and certain adjustments 
> > have to be made, but nothing serious is happening to our rights.
> 
> Not at all.  You've merely in the last three years:
> 
> given a single man the authority to arbitrarily strip anyone,
> including an American citizen, of any rights they have under the
> Constitution or international law, and hold, try, convict, and
> possibly execute them in secret; amd granted unprecedented powers
> to law enforcement and intelligence agencies to invade your
> privacy to collect information without having to get permission
> froma court.  Assuming they don't get word from the aforementioned
> person and simply make you disappear.

Uh, no. We have not.

> 
> Of course nothing serious is happening to the rights of most
> people at the moment.  Just a few unfortunate innocent bystanders,
> some unsavoury sorts, even some real criminals.  I'm sure nothing
> whatsoever would happen to the rights of the ordinary American.
> 
> What was that quote from Martin Niemoeller?
> 
> 

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