Uh, is this more frightening than the foreign terrorists?
Ok, you can't paint a whole group by the ramblings of a complete ignoramus ditz, but how many believe that others should be penalized in some way for protesting the war or speaking out against government erosion of civil liberties? It's very difficult to believe that any American would truly think this way.
Conversations with neocons on a cruise:
Mark Frauenfelder:
Johann Hari of the Independent (UK) paid $1200 to take a cruise with 500 "straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republican" readers of the conservative National Review magazine. His mission: to "find out what American conservatives say when they think the rest of us aren't listening."
I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty, scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When I hear her say, " Of course, we need to execute some of these people," I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers through the sand lazily. "A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country," she says. "Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that's what you'll get." She squints at the sun and smiles. " Then things'll change."