More Fascism

Corrente has a scary post today.

The political landscape has changed far more drastically under the Bush administration then most people realize. If you want to attend a Bush rally, or "town hall meeting", you have to sign a loyalty oath indicating you are a Bush supporter. They do not allow people with dissenting views to attend the public events with the President. That's really not news.

But, the government investigates and keeps records on those who have opposing political views.

"Rebecca Boettcher's son, a former Marine, was serving in Iraq when Baghdad fell. Her niece remains deployed there with the Missouri National Guard.

The 57-year-old Indialantic grandmother said she considers herself patriotic -- and was upset to learn the Brevard County Sheriff's Office targeted her as a "person of interest" in connection with an anti-President Bush rally Jan. 20 at Melbourne City Hall. Officials secretly gathered information about her."

I would imagine that I'm on somebody's list someplace for what I've written on my blog. Doesn't it bother anybody that a person can be investigated for not agreeing with the politics of the government?

With the politicalization of conventional 'criminal' actions through the blending of the criminal and political police in the newly former 'security police' a week later, the ideological power-house of the Third Reich and executive organ or the "Fuhrer will' has essentially taken shape. ~ Ian Kershaw, Hitler/Hubris; pages 540-541