[extropy-chat] Tyranny in place

[Joseph Bloch]

Samantha Atkins wrote:

>What do you mean "up to a point"?  Criticism is always in order in a
>free country.
>
>- samantha
>


Indeed! One wonders if the activities of the German-American Bund should 
not have been allowed after Germany declared war on the United States in 
1941. Or the various Japanese "patriotic" organizations.

And yet, innumerable individuals and organizations make all manner of 
excuses and lend support to the Islamists who would see Sharia law 
imposed on the entire world, with never a word of condemnation for 
bombings, hijackings, beheadings, burnings, and outright murders. (How 
many Muslim organizations condemned the slaying of that Italian nun a 
week or two ago, compared to the number who condemned the Pope for 
quoting some obscure Byzantine source in a highly complex philosophical 
argument?) All in the name of those civil liberties you claim are being 
taken away. If your hypothesis were true, surely there would be mass 
arrests of Muslims and Democrats by now.

You are allowing your hatred of the current administration to blind you 
to the force which really wants to destroy the Western way of life. What 
do you think would be more conducive to seeing the Transhumanist vision 
come to fulfillment? A Taliban-like state imposed over all the peoples 
of the world? Or a stridently pro-business Western democracy?

Joseph