Reply #130: Let's not go overboard... [View All]

The Bush administration, despite its trashing of much of our constitutional protections, has not achieved fascism. You should be on notice that they have TRIED to weaken the Second Amendment through Alberto Gonzalez' request for authority to place all people on the "No Fly" list on a "No Buy" list, preventing them from purchasing firearms. This would deny not only one's 2A rights, but due-process rights. Whatever you think Bush "knows" or does not know about gun-ownership posing a threat, this action speaks for itself.

Bush HAS successfully pushed for Black Water to become a virtual private army. Perhaps he knows such a force would be much more pliable to his ideology than duly-constituted military and police forces. My contention still stands: fascism cannot be achieved unless civilian firearms are confiscated and access to them is virtually eliminated.

Fascism is a violent and extreme ideology, not the stuff of barroom banter.