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Originally Posted by RobMoney$
Let's say here's the scale of:
"Things that could possibly happen with the government collecting a list of names"
10 - Dissenters put into prison camps
9
8
7
6
5 - Dissenters will be charged with a misdemeanor of some sort.
4
3
2
1 - Dissenters will be sent an e-mail with "Obama's facts", setting them straight on the healthcare issue.
0 - Nothing
What will probably happen IMO, is anywhere from a 0 to a 1.
And as long as we have history books that tell us about the horrors of Nazi Germany, you can't say shit like that will never happen, because it did happen. So that has to be included in the "List of possibilities", right?
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what? no, it doesn't have to be included. here's what bothers me about what you're doing; it doesn't sound to me like you're innocently comparing obama to hitler as a "list of possibilities", it sounds to me like you're saying "this is how hitler got started", when the possibility of this thing snowballing into fascism (or is it socialism? communism?) is so impossibly slim that i think it's downright irresponsible to talk about it like it's got any reasonable chance whatsoever of happening. it doesn't. and it's incredibly hard to have a reasonable debate about public healthcare when you constantly have to stop and explain how it's nothing like nazi germany.
obama is not hitler (or stalin or kim jong il or...whoever, pick one). he will never be hitler. as shitty as bush was, even he wasn't hitler - he was just a terrible president. i didn't like it when people compared his administration to the nazis, and i don't like it now. the fact that you don't see a problem with comparing this to nazi germany is upsetting me, rob. hitler started a war with the world and exterminated 6 million jews. obama's asking people to tell him the rumors they're hearing about health care. i don't see the link.
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Answer me this Bob,
Why are they asking for names, or email addy's? Why can't people just cut and paste the disinformation they're asking for so they can compile a response?
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are they asking for names? i looked at the website and i didn't see that. they said "If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to
flag@whitehouse.gov. " nothing about names. of course i'm sure they're going to get a few - some people will just forward the e-mails, some people might even be paranoid nuts who want to snitch on their neighbors, but i don't see what's stopping people from cutting and pasting the body of the e-mail and just leaving the contact information out. in fact i think that's exactly what the government is asking people to do...?
did i miss something?