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Thread #40786   Message #587820
Posted By: CarolC
07-Nov-01 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: It Can't Happen Here? (U.S. Freedom lost
Subject: RE: It Can't Happen Here? (U.S. Freedom lost
You want to be anti-government? Cool... feel free... but know that you will be watched.

--GUEST,just a nobody

I find this statement pretty troubling. There is a big difference between being 'anti-government' and being in opposition to the party of the present administration.

That's one of the things that is supposed to make this country great, isn't it? The right to oppose the current administration, and to seek to win the office through free and fair elections? No?

If the current administration uses the power of the office, and inteligence agencies such as the FBI to moniter the activities of opposition parties, don't we come frighteningly close to being the very sort of non-democratic society that we keep saying we're better than?