The the following article concerns the idea that complaining about Bush should be punishable under the esponiage act. Well, that idea is --- just wrong. But I have a gripe with Shapiro's attempted justification of his position:
Townhall.com :: Columns :: Should we prosecute sedition? by Ben Shapiro - Feb 15, 2006: "During the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court repeatedly upheld the free speech rights of war opponents, whether those opponents distributed leaflets depicting the rape of the Statue of Liberty or wore jackets emblazoned with the slogan 'F--- the Draft.' America lost the Vietnam War."
Wrong. We did not lose the Vietnam War. We were long gone from the country when the North invaded the South. The South Vietnamese lost the war. Furthermore, there is a considerable difference betwixt WW II, WW I, etc. and civil liberties, and political responses to free speech during Iraq I & II, Grenada, Vietnam, and, let's not forget--- Korea. No war is the same as another and to liken them to one fixed plane of political response is to commit the ultimate sin that has bedeviled Bush from 2000 on-- the sin of stupidity.
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