via
SeeingtheForest:
Is there enough going on to make you nervous yet? The Vice President of the United States was the
keynote speaker at a conference where
other speakers called for "a new McCarthyism" to bring "terror" to intellectuals, saying "let's oppress them [liberals]," and "the entire Harvard faculty" are "traitors." A
Congressman said, "America's Operation Iraqi Freedom is still producing shock and awe, this time among the blame-America-first crowd,"? Then he said, "We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside Iraq."
Meanwhile, right-wing commentators talk about
killing American journalists, their premier blogs talk about former president Carter as being
on the side of the enemyand leftists have
"seamlessly taken up the cause of Islamic fascism." I have provided only a few examples.
When you hear threatening talk like this,
in the company of the country's leadership, you know that whatever comes next isn't going to be pleasant. Things do not appear to be heading in a good direction at all. If you have been following this in the blogs, you know that more and more people are becomming concerned that the Right's rhetoric is growing ever more violent and totalitarian. Serious people have started referring to the
"f-word." (See also
here,,
here,here,here, and many
other places.)
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