"Don't hold em, shoot em!"The Fascist Takeover Continues Unabated in 2005

Even Instapundit has some problems with the idea of permanent gulags for terrorists we can't actually, you know, charge with anything. But then there's a blog called The American Mind, which says cheerfully:

Since letting the prisoners go would guarantee future American deaths we have two choices: either we hold the most dangerous terrorists until they die; or we shoot them. (The CIA will just moved them outside the U.S. with a 'rendition' and off them.) Human rights activists who seem to care more about the rights of America's enemies than Americans don't like to admit that's the dilemma we face. They worry about government abuses. That's something I'll grant has taken place, is taking place now, and will in the future. However, if it's a terroist being abused instead of an American killed then that's a tragic tradeoff I'm willing to make. It's us or them, and I know what side I'm on.

Again, I refer readers to Mayer's Nazis:

"I'd like to ask the American Bürger, [editor, can you pls fix the spelling of that so it refers to a middle-class person, not to a food item?][Fixed.] the middle-class man: What would you have done when your country stood so? A dictatorship, or destruction by Bolshevism? Bolshevism looked like slavery and the death of the soul. It didn't matter if you were in agreement with Nazism. Nazism looked like the only defense. There was your choice."

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The question was not whether Communism threatened the country, as, with the continuation of deteriorating conditions, it certainly did or soon would; the question was whether the Germans were convinced that it did. And they were. They were so well convinced, by such means as the Reichstag fire of 1933, that the Nazis were able, ultimately, to establish anti-Communism as a religion, immune from inquiry and defensible by definition alone. When in 1937 the Pope attacked the "errors" of National Socialism, the Nazi Government's defense of its policies consisted of a Note accusing the Pope of "having dealt a dangerous blow to the defense front against the world menace of Bolshevism."