Has the U.S. Crossed the Line Into Oppression?
by Craig J. Cantoni It is easy to identify oppression in the extreme. Think of Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Pol Pot and Mao. It is not so easy, however, to identify less extreme kinds of oppression or to know when a government has crossed the line that separates liberty from oppression. For instance, the Third Reich crossed the line long before Jews were incinerated in furnaces. It crossed the line around the time that it banned non-Jews from shopping in Jewish stores, thus depriving Jews of part of their income. Has the United States crossed the line into oppression? I am not raising the question because of the Patriot Act, the recent Supreme Court decision that limits political speech, the jackbooted SWAT teams that break down doors looking for dopers, the state harassment of cigarette smokers, the granting of privileges to some races over other races, the fining of drivers who don’t wear seat belts, the searching of automobiles under false pretenses, the expansion of federal power way be
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