Opinion:

The rhetoric is completely out of hand

I am sitting in the Gare de Lyon waiting for my train back to Grenoble, so I only have time for a short post for which I have some material to follow up with later, likely tomorrow. It is a message that needs to be conveyed to elements of BOTH wings, however.

To those who fling about the label "fascist" and like to use the idiotic shorthand "Bushitler", I say: How DARE you trivialize the legacy of those murdered by the true fascist criminals. Even in France, which has a history both of oppression in the violent revolutions that have overcome this country along with a past tainted with some collaboration with the Nazi occupiers, they recognize the evil and have been commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Camps, posting photos of those who were murdered, the posters with the legend, "Forgetting is the second death."

You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially if you call yourselves "liberal".

Saying that Bush is Hitler is not only childish and reeks of a complete ignorance of who are the REAL thugs in history, it also makes light of the murders of those who suffered under that oppression.

To those who fling about the accusation that Christianity is being oppressed because less than 5% of Bush's judicial nominees have been stonewalled by the Democratic Party, I say: How DARE you trivialize the legacy of those murdered and imprisoned in REAL religious oppression. Even today, in China, the darling of the capitalists who lust after the huge market potential there, followers of the Falun Gong sect are being imprisoned and some killed. That is true religious oppression.

You should be ashamed of yourselves, especially if you call yourselves "conservative".

Saying that 95% isn't enough and is oppression is not only childish and reeks of a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it also makes light of those murdered by true oppression of religion.

Both sides: Grow up or SHUT UP.