Originally Posted by BIG JIM MERRILEES
... What I find puzzling and totally bizarre is that people can be biased and side with Gibson without knowing the proper facts. This is taking patriotism far too far....perhaps a common failing. I do not think I need say any more on the subject.

The problems for me are:
a) the methodology used -- gestapo storm troopers -- when a simple knock on the door with a few federal agents and a bunch of inspectors would have sufficed.
b) the seeming lack of due process (14th amendment) used in cases like like this where everything can be confiscated and kept -- sort of guilty until proven innocent, the exact opposite of our supposed justice philosophy.
c) The seeming limitless powers the fed agencies have in this case. If we let them do this to Gibson, then next it will be us citizens. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Originally Posted by Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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