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There was a sunset provision in the Patriot Act which required it to be reauthorized through a vote in both houses.

I know, I know, the first one to invoke the Nazi comparison loses, but I just read an interesting historical tidbit that Hitler's Enabling Act also required it to be reauthorized after four years.

Another website defined Fascism as: "Mussolini said that fascism should more properly be called "corporatism" since it was, under Mussolini, a blending of state and corporate power. Mussolini ought to know; he was the first fascist leader."

But, I like what Henery A Wallace said, in 1944:
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/danger.htm
" If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ...

  American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, ...

  Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases: The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
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That last sentence defines what is now called 'FUD'. The Germans are no longer the threat they once were, but Microsoft has seen no problem helping the Communist in China round up dissidents and jail them, or worse.

Now, Microsoft is calling in its chips, all those "campaign contributions" it has flooded the Congress and the Senate with.

Do you NOW see what happens when Justice is thwarted and the guilty are given mere slaps on the wrist and with a wink and a nod told they can continue with "business as usual"?

If it comes to that, I sincerely hope that your soldiers will have more courage to refuse orders than German soldiers did under Hitler.

Because your administration will certainly follow the Nazis' example of creating laws first that will make those orders at least formally legal. Actually, one might consider the PATRIOT act a first step in that direction. See also
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm

So following the law about illegal orders will not be sufficient, because that law will not exist anymore when it is needed. Instead, your soldiers might have to ignore the laws outright in order to preserve liberty.

SS German Elite Wins every time...
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm/

All I have to say is
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm/
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"Martin Taylor: Yeah, and I'm hearing more and more customers say that that's one of the biggest reasons why they've continued to use Microsoft and continued to use Windows Server, contrary to what you might read in the media, Windows Server is continuing to grow, and is a very healthy rich platform, both for IT professionals as well as ISVs, to build solutions on top of, and we also offer an incredible level of rich scenario enablement, scenarios around secure identity management, secure mobile access, communication collaboration, application platform, just a variety of different scenarios."

How are they going to compare the two if MioSüKz does not run any other software, only there own...?!?!?! http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/189 214&tid=109&tid=218/

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"Clutch my testes, bloody squirrel humpers!!" -Happy Noodle Boy

You've given your government their very own Enabling Act. Now you are beginning to deal with the consequences --
and in future they are going to be rather more weighty than a bit
of fuss about copyright. Good luck -- you'll need it!

Do you (does anyone, for that matter) *really* think Bush and Hitler are comparable in any way that's remotely important?

Yes.