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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
One of the major talking points of the Democratic party is that its opposition peddles in nothing less than fear-mongering in order to win elections.

Fear of terrorism. Fear of the mulitculturism. Fear of Nancy Pelosi. Whatever.

But ask yourselves this? Who is here is peddling fear?

Fear of our own elected government, that is. Fear of the Executive Branch. Fear of the freest country in the World; a country that offers protections unimagined elsewhere.

And yet the inference from many of your posts that we're nothing more than a moment away from becoming a fascist state. That we need to expand the power of the judiciary - and ways not conceived in 240 years - in order to protect the other citizens of the World from being swept away and locked away forever by the evil #43. When the truth is, we already offer more protections to foreign citizens than any other country on the planet.

Think about it.

This is wrong. I'm not afraid at all that my government is going to slap me in a prison outside the country. Nor do I think the vast majority of Americans have anything to worry about in this regard. But I don't think we should limit habeas, and I'm willing to stand for that principle even if it means that I experience some notional, tiny increased risk from a terorrist attack. If any one is resting on fear here, it is the conservatives who say that we need to confer unbridled powers on the executive branch to protect us from foreigners who want to kill us.