The Snowden Saga has revealed something else

[Cleita]

116. Yes. You make a person illegal or an action illegal, then you can round them up

and throw them in jail. Happens to our undocumented workers all the time and it's not a coincidence that our jails, now privatized are full of people, who are ethnically not white. I just was reading about the horrors of the Florida privatized jail system. It's not hard to fall on the wrong side of the law there either if you are brown.

And really, you are talking about the media? Honestly, have you not paid attention? Sure we have a few oppositional voices in the media but they are fewer and fewer and shoved aside to obscure cable TV networks and low powered radio stations. The only free media we still have is the internet and there are movements to marginalize that too. In Germany it was possible to get other publications, but they were very few, and usually around places like hotels where foreigners might be staying, but mostly Germans got Goebbels propaganda thrown at them most of the time.

Also, the en masse round-ups didn't really begin until about 1938 and of course increased and went on steroids during the war as the Germans got more and more fanatical. I suppose you were okay with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They didn't remind you at all of Austria, Poland and those other places in eastern Europe?