And me without my armbands....

This coming from "I've got no interest in English Common Law Mustard"  one of the greatest admissions of ignorance of all time.

As I said, look up Fascism. It might help to explain things for you.

 

You don't have a leg to stand on, mustard.

Subject field experts -- which wouldn't be you, by the way -- have done many detailed studies on the comparative regimes of Hitler, Putsch, Mussolini, Pol Pot and despotic banana republics in Indonesia and South America. There are many shared characteristics.

 

Why is it that people who claim to be such stout Americans and such champions of freedom and liberty are so willing to dispense with those pesky subjects when convenient?

 

Everything I read says over 6 million Jews died. You only have 5.7 million.

So who's belittling the Holocaust?

(EDIT: Just kidding, although hundreds of thousands of lives is a significant deviation. Plus, inappropriate smiley removed.)

 

I used to be deeply put off by the Bush Admin-Nazi comparisons.

Not so much anymore.

 

1. Now that's original -- more insults from JR.
2. Keep on bringing the Yates thread over to other arguments. Now THAT'S a way to make a point.
3. I've got "no interest in English Common Law" is because I already know enough about it without having to "go read about it". Certainly I know enough about it to engage in an internet argument with, presumably, a fellow sports journalist. Now, if you're a lawyer, that's another story.
4. Already looked it up. Does fascism accurately reflect what's going on in this administration? You know what -- you've got a point, because that's an argument that can be made.
5. Again, keep up with the Hitler imagery, though. I'm sure there are at least 5.7 million that agree that such imagery should be used in this instance.

 

Maybe Bush-Mussolini is a more appropos comparison, for many reasons.

 

The Bill of Rights extends only to US citizens (unless you want to impose our laws on all the peoples of the world). Did I miss something or did that story you linked to say these measures would be extended to US citizens or are they just for foreign enemy combatants captured in civilian garb?

Democrats will continue to lose national elections as long as they continue to appear to care more about the "rights" of the terrorists our miliatry catches than about the men and women in the miliatry who are risking their lives fighting them. Do you think these people fight according to Hoyle or obey the Geneva Convention? Maybe in your hippy dreams.

 

I like Banana Republic, but I've never seen a despotic one. Didn't know they had them in Indonesia (although I'm sure many of the clothes are manufactured there.) Anyway, one word comes to mind with the story...

Oy...

 

This is something straight out of Kafka.

John D. Hutson, the Navy's top uniformed lawyer from 1997 to 2000, said the rules would evidently allow the government to tell a prisoner: "We know you're guilty. We can't tell you why, but there's a guy, we can't tell you who, who told us something. We can't tell you what, but you're guilty."

 

And Erik Estrada and the Homoerotic Doll Boys say, "And the problem with that is what, exactly?"