In the category of hard to believe….

Lawrence Lessig’s blog points today over to a piece by John Gilmore, who was forced to leave a British Airways airplane because he was wearing a political button that read “suspected terrorist.” Read the story! It’s this kind of political nonsense that we need to hear about and deal with, as our country slides closer and closer to fascism. The older I get, the closer I feel in time to the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. WWII is still a living memory to my mom and other people of her generation, and I hate to think that my generation has forgotten how innocuous Hitler’s early declarations were. He was actually a democratically elected leader. We need to remember this…