Obama's SS: Step One

[scotty]

Originally Posted by Aquila

My wife's family is Jewish. One thing that a lot of non-Jewish people never notice is how often so many compare their political adversaries to "Hitler". Jews get tired of hearing it because people have compared Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, etc. to Hitler...and NONE of them come close to being as evil as Hitler. Now, to compare Obama to Hitler is to essentially downgrade Hitler's evil to that of an average American politician. That's offensive to some Jews, especially a sizable number of the Jewish community who voted for him.

Oh for the love of Pete will ya'll get over yourselves !! There is no comparison like this being made on this thread ! Wow, the attempt to build a city on a garden plot here is just amazing.

Now, on another note, most Western countries around the World including Britain, Israel, Canada, Italy, and many, many, many more have a process whereby local law enforcement can be placed under the authority of the national government, especially in the event of a national emergency.

None of this is unexpected. I'm all for diligence and keeping an eye on this kind of thing...but this is par for the course in the post-9/11 world we live in.

Exactly, but, what you speak of is already in place. It was put into place within the policies of the Homeland Security Department. So why this ?

I think we should be weary of those who cry wolf. Think about it... a lot of the same people who are crying wolf with Obama right now unconditionally supported the Bush Administration's Patriot Act and the preemptive invasion of Iraq which was based on highly questionable intelligence. If you ask me, that's far closer to being despot than anything we've seen to date.

And this is just more in a direction that is not intended here. I could care less about everyones political asspirations based on what little knowledge they have of true government operations. (and yes , I know you work for the federal government, still does not hold water as I have seen your post in this area before)

I had no problem with the Patriot Act, as far as Im concerned, those who truley believed that the government is listening to them whispering sweet nothings to there girlfriends are right up there with the UFO loonies. If your not discussing bomb building then they didnt care less about your phone calls to grandma.

And start another thread if you really want to rehash Iraq because your statement above is right off the script from last weeks "The View"..

If Bush ever pushed a policy to have a federal police force I would have been calling him on it too.