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Originally Posted by myboynoah
A libertarian looking to socialists for salvation. Interesting.
From time to time I hear about Bush's assault on civil rights, so I'm curious about the details of how that is affecting the day to day lives of Americans. Has the place suddenly turned into a police state? Which rights has Bush the Fascist turned back? Are we talking about the NSA's practice of listening in on calls from suspect overseas phone numbers? Or is there something more sinister going on?
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I don't think he's suddenly turned us into a police state, it's taken six years. I also don't think that my day to day life has changed that much. I doubt that most non-Jewish German's lives would have changed much in the early Hitler years either. My biggest complaints are: The centralized police force he created (the Germans called it the Gestapo, we call it Homeland Security), his belief in torture, invading the wrong country, the Patriot Act, domestic spying, habeas corpus issues, declaring an open ended war on a non-specific enemy (the war on terror is too broad), and cronyism. I'm sure I forgot a few.