Even worse than McCarthy, Any Questions?

Earlier, my blogging co-hort, DeDurkheim wrote this:

I believe that McCarthyism (where communism was the ideological enemy and everyone was asked to tell on a friend or neighbor) pales in comparison to the last few years of truth-killing, fear-mongering, government expansion into our private lives, and a situation where terrorism is the ubiquitous enemy that requires us to give up essential civil liberties and allow fundamental aspects of our democracy to be altered or done away with all in the name of vague assertions of "freedom" or "liberty" and "security".

As if pre-Ordained the New York Times reports:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been questioning political demonstrators across the country, and in rare cases even subpoenaing them, in an aggressive effort to forestall what officials say could be violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention in New York...

..."The message I took from it," said Sarah Bardwell, 21, an intern at a Denver antiwar group who was visited by six investigators a few weeks ago, "was that they were trying to intimidate us into not going to any protests and to let us know that, 'hey, we're watching you.' ''

The unusual initiative comes after the Justice Department, in a previously undisclosed legal opinion, gave its blessing to controversial tactics used last year by the F.B.I in urging local police departments to report suspicious activity at political and antiwar demonstrations to counterterrorism squads. The F.B.I. bulletins that relayed the request for help detailed tactics used by demonstrators - everything from violent resistance to Internet fund-raising and recruitment.

Can there be ANYTHING more un-American than having the Government intimidating people based on their political viewpoints?

This gang on misanthropes has to go!