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No, I really can't put P. Geller in the same category. Murder-mongering Islamofascists are real threats to the nation unlike the Jews of Europe. Peaceful Muslims are not being rounded up and shot or gassed by the millions by American armies, like Streicher encouraged before and while the Nazis did such to the Jews.. Nor does P.G. have anything like the political connections and popular influence Streicher did.Would'nt you agree @Solomon2 ? People like Pamela Geller are just like Streicher?
Liberal democracy is not a death pact. The U.S. has made compromises to its freedoms before to gain security: throwing out the British Loyalists, suspending habeus corpus, drafting citizens into armies, and internment camps for Japanese come to mind. (Perhaps the last was unnecessary - no Japanese had been known to commit terrorism, the justification was an unsubstantiated fear of espionage. These instances were all temporary and republican norms were resumed after the conflicts. In 1990 or so the U.S. acknowledged that the internment of the Japanese was wrong and token payments made to the internees as acknowledgement of such.)