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It's only bad when the government of China does it.
Or Burmese generals.
Or Republicans.
No one who continues to identify themselves as a Democrat or Republican has any business even uttering the word "freedom" or lecturing the rest of the nation about Constitutional rights.
Shame. Shame. Shame.
To those of you so eagerly anticipating your collective moment of glory in Denver, enjoy your magisterial coronation. Don't let the fact that your brothers and sisters are caged like petty criminals distract you from the tribal celebration.
This is Fascism, my friends. And there is no justification for it. None.
When you wave your little flags and proudly don your little donkey pins, whatever you do, don't listen to that faint, desperate voice buried deep within your conscience; the one that says "This is wrong." There will be plenty of time for that later.
