Yup. That's what happened in Germany. Those who unquestioningly accepted the word of government served Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and the rest of the rotten crew...and soon found themselves living in a dictatorship. And those who questioned the government and spoke out, as some of us are doing, either had to flee the country or were arrested, and generally executed in the long run. They were accused of being...unpatriotic. It's an accusation that can prove fatal under some circumstances, regardless of whether it has any merit.

I'd call it "guilt by slander". Remember Joe McCarthy? He would gladly have ordered the execution of millions, given the chance, and there are those now who think just the way he did. What worries me is that some of them may be in very high places of power.

- LH