I did want to add on to something that was said by someone else in the last thread, about how much this resembles the 1950s. One of the main reasons I have a clear idea about ‘liberty’ being a concrete, and not an abstract function, is that a very dear friend of mine– now sadly passed away– was one of the Berkeley professors who was fired for not signing the loyalty oath.

His name was Charles Muscatine. He was an amazing person, a WWII veteran who’s reason for not signing was, “I already signed an oath to the US Navy and I don’t feel like signing another.

Read more about him, and hear him speak, here:

http://www.trackedinamerica.org/timeline/mccarthy_era/muscatine/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/arts/20muscatine.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1282641895-wjNFG2+i4lREQBHF9KaGXw

It is important to remember that these debates have consequences that go beyond elections and policy. The crazy tide of anti-Muslim sentiment is probably already costing some decent people their jobs and livelihoods. I hope that it stops before it costs them their lives.

just a fake story all around for your planned outrage. kthnx Pentagon.