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To: ild who wrote (46256)	11/29/2005 3:48:34 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110194

Date: Tue Nov 29 2005 15:02 trotsky (ahem) ID#248269: Copyright © 2002 trotsky/Kitco Inc. All rights reserved "Faced with European demands that the United States explain a newspaper report that secret detention centers to interrogate terrorism suspects were located in two unnamed east European countries, Rice intends to remind the Europeans that they are in a joint fight against an enemy that she says obeys no laws." and that i suppose means by implication that 'we' shouldn't obey any laws either. since when has the fact that criminals do not obey laws meant that the so-called 'civilized world' should drop all pretenses of adhering to the rule of law? this is precisely the type of mindset that has informed Hitler's 'enabling law' after the Reichstag fire. every time this comparison comes up one risks of course being labelled an alarmist. however, what people forget is that at the time this law was enacted, Germany was still considered a democracy. the point is not that a clone of Hitler's dictatorship is about to be erected, but rather the more general point that THIS is how dictatorships start out, namely by legalizing the ditching of basic human rights in the name of 'security'.