[Mishmash] "misinformation" policing

[Richard Barth]

At 12:13 AM 8/8/2009, you wrote:
>At 07:29 PM 8/7/09, you wrote:
>
> >Oh please.  Be serious.  White House efforts to get a handle on 
> some of the right-wing
> >hogwash circulating on the net  reminds you of Hitler's 
> Germany?  You must not have done
> >much reading about Hitler's Germany.
>
>Actually, I have - WWII and the rise of the Nazi party is an 
>interest of mine - children turning in their parents, neighbours 
>turning in their neighbours - perhaps you should brush up on it.

The significant difference is what the government meant to do with 
the information.  In the case of the Nazis, dissenters disappeared 
into the death camps.  Anybody who seriously believes a U.S. 
administration has this in mind, or could get away with it if it 
wanted to, has to be smoking some strange stuff.  The Nazis had 
complete control of the government.  In the U.S., Congressional party 
leaders don't even control their own parties.  The phrase "herding 
cats" comes to mind.

> >>Have any of your elected officials actually read that 1100 page 
> bill they're expected to vote on?
> >
> >Have you?
>
>Ditto - have you?  Actually, I don't have access to a copy unless 
>it's available on line - at which point I would read it - which 
>would be more apparently than your elected officials plan to do 
>before approving it!

It's available on line.  See the link in my earlier posting.


>Susan
>Canada

Dick


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