Our closest to a dictatorship? Errors with that.

I heard Sen. Barbara Boxer say that we are now the closest to a dictatorship in our history.

Well, she cannot be more wrong. Maybe in her world it is, but in mine, it is not. In dictatorships people are usually living in a country with far less crime, and doesn't have the problems we experience here in our country. Why is this? Quite simply countries which are under the rule of a dictator are SO under the control of that dictator, no one can get away with anything. If our current government is the feared "Big Brother" of the book 1984, they really suck at it.

If our government was so powerful, why are there groups like MS 13 running around on our streets? Our government cannot even stop the Hells Angels or the Sons of Silence from anything they do except an occasional bust now and then. But personally, I would rather have the last two mentioned running around our country than the first.

If you look to North Korea, you will see a dictatorship. And even with them, there have been worse. At least for what we know, Vlad Tepes or Idi Amin are not in North Korea. In terms of Hitler, North Korea seems tame. So, if we are close to, or part of a dictatorship, where are the mass killings and complete loss of freedoms?

Barbara can take this hyperactive imagination and use it on something else. If President Bush is a dictator, he is the weakest and lamest dictator this world has ever seen.

When Bill Clinton was in power, he killed more Americans against their will. Anyone remember Waco? Our soldiers were not drafted. Our soldiers signed up freely without any guns to their heads. When we have the Stalin-esque tactics of putting our soldiers in harms way without guns and the threat of death if they turn back to our lines, I will agree with her, but this is not our way, nor has it ever been.

Isn't amazing that if anyone on the right said statements like this they would be forced from office, or out of any public job they held within days, but on the left it is par for the course. People, do your homework. Do not fall for this kind of BS. It is part of why I changed parties and while it continues, I will never go back.