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it is an insult to the 10 million civilians murdered by Hitler to use the term facist simply as a term of abuse,

You insult everyone's intelligence by equating fascism to genocide. Suggested reading on the origins, meanings and definition of fascism include Friere, Foucault and even the damn Utne Reader among many others.

Meeks was intending to link Clinton's crypto policy to Hitler's. I see no evidence from Meeks' style that he has read Foucault. If Meeks wanted to be effective he could have accused Clinton and Freeh of seeking to build a Stalininst secret police, or make such an organisation possible. It would probably be more accurate to link Freeh to Hoover and point out how such power has been abused in the US political system before. The point was that Meeks' article is not the type to advance our cause. It basically says "if you are a democrat you believe in cypto-control". Err yes, well done, you have just told half the country that they support the opposite policy to the one we are trying to get them to believe in. Plus Bush and Reagan advocated the same policy so he is also saying Republicans are against our cause. If you want you could reduce the ranks of those fighting for crypto regulations to be removed to members of the Libertarian party, but it would be more effective to widen the base. Phill