re: #246 Dark_Falcon

Actually, the best initial example to use (not the best there is, but the best to use) would be Radical Islamist rants and publications on the internet radicalizing a someone who then commits acts of terror. It’s the best initial example to use because its a familiar one people understand and because the fact that the radicalizer is usually foreign spares the initial example any discussion of how he is to be tried, since the terror master is going to be killed via airstrike instead of being brought to trial.

I’d argue that is the worst initial example to use as it plays into the already existing and unrealistic fears of the American public about Muslim terrorism. This foaming fear is one of the tools that The Ministry of Truth, I mean Fox News, uses to enrage the public and further their autocratic goals.

Such a policy would be a distraction from the real problem because Islamic radicalism does not pose an existential threat to America.

Until America comes to grip with the bullshit spread by The Ministry of Truth and individuals like Rush and Glenn it is in deadly danger of being destroyed. A nation ruled by fear mongers will not be a democratic one, and very few people in it will be free.