A better comparison would be the concentration camps for Japanese Americans during WW2 set up by FDR.
No, because then we kept records of interned aliens, gave them legal protection, and didn't torture them on a hunch, still less vanish them in the manner of Chilean (or, er, German) fascist dictatorships.
Now these little traces of civilisation are far too liberal for modern times, let's just render them.
<render> to melt down (e.g. a corpse) for its fat.
How very fitting. Lincoln would be so proud.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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Boy is this an overquoted Ben Franklin remark. Of course we should value our liberty but there are times that the President must act.
You really, truly do miss the entire point of the Franklin quote, don't you.
Just think, you could be so safe from terrorism etc. if you were to be sealed in a welded steel cube.
How about if everything anyone ever said were noted by a special secret group; with powers of arrest to take any enemies, and informants passing on any information they thought showed someone who through like an enemy of the state - hey, let's call them Stasi, or Gestapo, or KGB... get the message?
Or maybe call them the NSA... any difference? |
