Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:

and fascism is alive and well in the united states in the 21st century, from the white house on down.

You lose. Godwin's Law: prov. [Usenet] “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful. Godwin himself has discussed the subject. See also Formosa's Law. http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/jargon/html/G/Godwins-Law.html

but there is no shortage of soapboxes in cyberspace; and with google pulling everything together for people, it is more difficult to be invisible than to be found, so _try_ to relegate my free speech to your "protest zone".

How's your blog? Doesn't seem to get much traffic if you are still here. It's bad for your ego to see that nobody wants to hear you, eh? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org