This is American Fascism:



Commentary at Sullivan, Drum, TPM (w/YouTube), newsrack blog, Blue Girl, Red State.

Wikipedia: Enemy of the state:

An enemy of the state is a person accused of certain crimes against the state, such as treason. Falsely describing individuals in this way is often a manifestation of political repression. For example, an authoritarian regime may purport to maintain national security by describing social or political dissidents as "enemies of the state".

• In the case of Ancient Rome, see "Proscription".
• In the Soviet Union during the period of Stalinism, the corresponding term was Enemy of the people.
• For a prominent example in fiction, see Emmanuel Goldstein.

Wikipedia: Proscription:

Proscription (Latin: proscriptio) is the public identification and official condemnation of enemies of the state. It is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a "decree of condemnation to death or banishment" and is a heavily politically-charged word frequently used to refer to state-approved murder or persecution.

From Blue Girl, Red State: (emp add)

On Sean Hannity's new Sunday night show, he is designating an Enemy of the State. No kidding. Enemy of the State. He is selecting a fellow American every week and accusing them of treason, a capital offense. [...] You don't go around branding your fellow Americans as guilty of treason. This is the kind of thing that emboldens the Eric Rudolph's and the Tim McVeigh's and the zealots who gun down doctors for providing abortions. It incites the unstable to commit terrorism against their fellow Americans.

posted by Quiddity at 1/08/2007 10:30:00 PM