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To: Jamey who wrote (25436)	4/25/2007 8:44:55 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81003

James > Is the replacement of judges for political reasons the beginning of a dictatorship? One could say so, it's certainly not a move towards democracy. On the other hand, the President has the Constitutional right to appoint Supreme Court judges so he may as well use it. > Is history to repeat itself. I don't think so, not to the same extent. Remember, the US is the most powerful nation in the world while Germany was trying to achieve its rightful place in the hegemony of nations after its humiliating defeat of WW1 and the drastic terms of the Treaty of Versailles. In other words, the US is just "kicking some ass" around the place because it can and because it likes to while Germany was angry and desperate. The underlying circumstances are therefore quite different. Of course, there are some similarities particularly when one considers Guantanamo and Gitmo but fortunately for Americans incarceration in those places has happened only to "the enemy" ie Muslims.