[mburbank]

It's not like the Nazis, it's like the Nixon administration. A lot like it.

Now, I'll take the Nixon administration over the Holocaust any day. But I'm still pretty sure that doesn't mean Nixon was a good president.

And George, aside from wasting time and money and pissing on some of the things that sometimes make this country better than others, as long as all they do is listen to and watch you, it isn't a huge deal. Except for the part where they spend so much time doing bullshit they totally miss larger stuff.

But when the FBI 'watches' the group that protests the School of The Americas and labels them a potential terrorist threat, that's chilling. Because they are moving toward taking the political divide in the country and laying the groundwork to make one side criminal. Now so far in America the pendulum has generally managed to swing the other way before this sort of shit got too out of hand. Unless you were Japanese during WWII or a pinko in the fifties nothing much ever happened to you. My own parents were on the parger Nixon list, and while we had a van parked outside our house on a rewgular basis during the Month or so they organized protests against the ABM site being built in our town it was never a big deal.

But there's always a first time. I still believe in America, and I don't think a real, dangerous assault on our freedoms would ever work. But I think this gang is dumb enough to try. And I think, like a rabid dog, teh could do a lot of damage before they got put down.