On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:15:25 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:40:05 -0700, justwaitafrekinminute wrote:


You don't think the monitoring is going to lead to phone calls? Library
cards? Home invasions??? Obama even has websites and orgs set up
where you can report people for having right to life, McCain, and NRA
stickers on your car...

I don't like any government that treats it's citizens like the enemy. I
didn't like it when it happened to the left, and I don't like it now, but
it's not a new phenomenon. The only thing new is it's happening to
you. ;-(

Now look again at the film of the tea partys.. Do you see fighting,
stores being robbed and burned, buildings being blown apart or windows
smashed, speakers being forced off of the stage? Nope, that's (violence)
pretty much exclusively the "right" of the left over the last few
decades... Just ask any right leaning speaker who has been invited to
any campus lately.. The left will not tolerate free speech unless it's
theirs...

Both extremes have difficulty with free speech, and violence occurs from
both sides. Timothy McVeigh ring a bell? How about the abortion clinic
bombings? I also say that a democracy has more to fear from the right,
than the left. Try finding a democracy that was overthrown from the
left. There are a few, but from the right, there are many, including a
failed one planned here in the USA. Do a search on Dupont and coup.

You may also want to mention Palin's gatherings that quickly descended
into "kill 'em!!!" or any number of racial or cultural epithets that
are precursors to violence.

Iranians who burn effigies in the streets would have recognized the
sentiment immediately.