[mburbank]

I don't think Bush is Stalin or Hitler. I think he is a precursor. Writting on the wall is what you see before Jackboots in the street. This administration is pushing the nevelope of the possible. Sticking their toes in the water of doing away with habeus Corpus, making a trial run at concentration camps and disapearances. It's early days, but if I were ever to go, I'd want to go as an emigree and not a refugee.

I think we'll get through this, and I think that we'll look back on some of the things our government is doing now with the same sort of shame we regard McCarthy and Japanese interment camps.

It's not that I don't think there's an outside threat. I just think we've reacted to it as badly as we could have. I think we fought the wrong people for the wrong reasons and aliented at allies and threw away the enormous good will we briefly had. I think that sayimng we are at 'War' with terrorists, instead of pursuing criminals, creates a war that isn't meant to end. I think it's 'war' becuase presidents acrue extroadinary powers during war time.

A lot of my relatives hung around Europe just a little too long. I think the trick is in not waiting for the purges and pogroms but seeing them on the horizon.

I don't see them. I see the conditions for them potentially arising. But I have two little girls and sometimes I wonder if my eyesight is trustworthy enough.