Y'all hippy liberals might not understand this, but in case you didn't know, political dissent is NOT covered under the first amendment. In fact, it's treason. You didn't know that....?
What ever happened to conservatives who knew how to argue a point without accusing their opponents of treason? Let's see there's George Will, Pat Buchanan just calls you an idiot, and....I'm spent.
From Ann Coulter to Bill O'Liely to Sean Hannity to Rush to Newt to Mike Gallagher, conservatives (even after seeing how well it did for them in 2006) are turning to the treason argument. As you all surely know by now, Ann Coulter wrote a whole book about liberal treason, called Treason no less. Newt thinks we oughta limit free speech (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/ if you haven't seen him talk about how much the first amendment sucks).
Probably the worst example of this, I saw when watching FOXNEWS this afternoon (don't ask me why). "Radio Talk Show Host" (do these people exist for a purpose other than random cable shows?) Mike Gallagher (I kid you not) went on the air and said that the likes of Keith Olbermann and that stupid lady on the view who compared Rummy to Hitler (I shall agree with him that Don Rumsfeld isn't as bad as Hitler) should be put in detention camps. (www.foxnews.com I don't think the video is on their site).
Now, even us stupid hippy commie liberals can see that giving away troop movements is wrong (and that's why we don't do it). Hell, there's lots of stuff that's treason. That American who joined the Taliban, or that other nut who joined Al Qaeda, that's treason. Shooting the president, that's treason. Saying that you don't like the president--umm, that's called dissent, and it's called the key to our democracy.
The most interesting line Gallagher said was along the lines of, "I can't imagine what our enemies think when they hear Americans 'attack' [quotes mine] our leaders like this."
Well, I know exactly what Bin Laden and Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il are thinking when they hear that. "I'm glad we don't have that in our country, because if we did, I'd be fucked.
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"--Thomas Jefferson. I wonder if he's rolling over in his grave right now...