Obama Signs NDAA Martial Law

[JDPriestly]

9. Thanks, as one who has talked to a lot of people (mostly Germans) who lived in

and through the Third Reich, I have frequently warned DUers that we are in a period similar to the time that preceded the Third Reich in Germany. We face many of the challenges the Germans faced at that time.

We have an advantage in dealing with our challenges because of our long history of pulling together, protecting our rights to a fair degree and governing ourselves through our Constitutional institutions.

But our economic problems are not going to get better for quite a while, and now this over-reaction to the terrorists around the world.

Please, terrorism has been with us for a long, long time. When I flew from Vienna to the US in 1981, the security guards who checked our carry-ons when we boarded Jordanian Airlines ate some candy that a friend had given my very young children at the airport. I will never forget that. (Talk about taking candy from a child????) So I can vouch for the fact that we had terrorists then. But the extent to which our government is now responding to that threat is positively paranoid.

And the over-reaction is costing us a ton of money.

Oh, well, full employment for the paranoids among us. They need jobs too, I suppose.