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To: epicure who wrote (186067)	3/28/2012 10:29:23 AM
From: No Mo Mo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542836

First of all, following simple logic, if a lone voice has no impact by criticizing, how are positive comments any different? Why bother saying anything? Secondly, if one were to buy your premise that negative comments have no place, do you realize what you're advocating? It's not Democracy. At best it's blind conformity. At worst it's a political system that allows no disagreement or dissent. That's not what some of us have in mind when we think of Democracy. Finally, do you mean to say that a person disagreeing with policies 'demoralizes' supporters more than the policies themselves? The president has claimed the right to kill US citizens with no oversight. Maybe that has been going on before now, but for them to legitimize it with a public declaration is unprecedented -- and it's even more dangerous for a Democrat to establish this precedent as they are the party 'perceived' to be less prone toward executive branch overreach. Using the Espionage Act, this president has prosecuted people who have come forward to speak out against policies they found morally or ethically questionable. Since its inception in 1917, that law has been used only three times. In three years, the Obama administration, declaring before office that his would be the most transparent ever, has used it seven times. One of them was speaking out about the NSA conducting warrantless wiretapping, eavesdropping and data mining -- the government breaking the law to make sure its citizens don't say anything too threatening. Seven times in three years...to send a message to people that they should keep their mouths shut. Someone on a chat board criticizing policies such as this demoralizes you more than the policies themselves?