A stunning report from ABC News?

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

What you mental maladroits have great trouble understanding is there is no rights-trampling going on. What IS happening is the Administration has been trying to exert war powers without a declaration of war, nor, alas, any likelihood of having one. This is not quite a cleft stick, but definitely in the realm of between a rock and a hard place.

It's the rock and hard place the next Administration will be between also. Wars of insurgency are pretty open-ended. We should be open-ended about it too.

Test your civil liberties. How many of you have been arrested for your Bush bashing here? How many of you can't go to church? Been jailed for submitting a grievance or petition? Go out and buy a gun in town -- is that forbidden? How many infantrymen are quartered in your basement or living room? Any unreasonable SOB searched your skivvies while you were in them? Have you been made to incriminate yourself after getting busted for Bush bashing? Et bloody damn cetera.

Getting abuse from leftists and other peculiar mooncalves is, of course, a badge of honor. Recall the behavior of the "confederacy of dunces." Dunces who can't spell faithful, which is hardly the most challenging of words.

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

If we use their tactics, we are them.