GOP: love the State; hate your neighbor. This is what they're pushing next.

Sometimes the Republicans try to push agendas that I can't tell which evil totalitarian state they remind me of most. I think this time it's Stalin's Soviet Union. Bush already insists on loyalty oaths and relying on paid propagandists, and the GOP is doing everything to establish one-party rule in Congress. Now if this story is accurate, the GOP is intending to pass a law that would COMPEL every citizen to spy on their family and neighbors or face jail time.

What the Hell are Republicans trying to turn America into??? We won the Cold War just to BECOME the Soviets? Screw that.

And in perfect Orwellian language, the bill is titled: "H.R. 1528, Defending America's Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005." Not even Palpatine could have cooked up a steamier pile of horseshit for a title.

This bill is ostensibly aimed at drug related crimes. And there are some direct benefits from that, particularly filling up our prisons with innocent people (which makes them look "tough on crime" and creates a density crisis that would help reinvigorate the previously disasterous plan of privatization). Given that hardly a family in this country is without at least one drug user, that pretty much gives Dubya the right to put us all in jail.

This, coming from the party that bitched to high Heaven about Parental Control chips in televisions...