Those of you who thought this was comparable to Nazi Germany...could you point me to the part in Nazi history where your state-appointed defense lawyer gets to go the court and get an order defying the will of the state?
Flawed argument.
To be Naziesque, you need not be deprived of counsel. What makes one Nazi-like is their behavior and policies, not what you (the victim) have or don't have as a mechanism for defense. It is the nature of the authority that is Nazi-ish, not the condition of the victim.
Those of us who do favor less government and more civil liberties would really appreciate it if the word "Nazi" was reserved for those few occasions were it actually captured the horror of the systematic extermination of entire races as policy.
That's the politically correct approach. It is like reserving any discussion to the civil war as a context for making race/civil rights arguments only.
So by that logic, the only time I can call the government Nazis is when they actually march people into gas chambers. It will be too late then. But to be fair in my criticism, I must wait for the materialization of ultimate evil. Or more accurately, the logical conclusion of the current path to tyranny that we're on right now.
Pretty soon they will do something worthy of the word "Nazi" and nobody will even blink when you point it out because the power of the word will have been defused by its frequent and erroneous use.
Pretty soon? Try now.
Respectfully disagreed. I already consider most of my government as being too Nazi for my tastes (although not full-blown Nazis just yet). This confiscation attept of gold teeth strikes yet another startling similarity between them and the Nazis of the past.
Now, it isn't I who labels the government, nor I who creates their image. It is their actions, policies and behavior that mimics the Nazis. If they don't want to be called JBT's or Nazis, perhaps they should reconsider taking peoples teeth and doing many of the various things the Nazis did.
As for not blinking...
I feel as though we all suffer from a little bit of the slow-boil frog syndrome. We've come a long way down the road of tyranny, yet we keep on debating whether or not our government is rotten yet. Like the Jews of 1940's Germany, we'll only come to a consensus when we are being marched into the gas chambers. That's the sad part about us. We are so willing to overlook things and give the benefit of the doubt over and over and over because of our good-nature. Those poor souls kept denying what was really happening even up the the last few days.
That will not happen here. Never again! (and I am not Jewish).
Don't ever believe because we are "America" that it cannot happen here. It can happen anywhere as rulers are universally corruptable and have the potential for limitless evil.