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frazzled Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-15-10 02:21 PM
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11. Until citizens start getting thrown in prison or gulags or camps
solely for opposing government policies (I'm not talking about breaking any other kinds of laws in the act of doing so), then no, we are decidedly not a fascist state. We weren't even under the Bush administration. One of the defining features of a fascist state is forcible suppression of opposition.

You are able to sit here all day opposing the government, even trash-talking it, and you are free as a bird to do so.

Hyperbole doesn't make it so.
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