When a government seeks to paint any opposition as unpatriotic and any dissent as treason, when it uses its allies in industry and the media to hound skeptics and blacklist celebrities, when it attempts to paint legitimate questions of policy as either a vote for America or a vote for dictatorship, that's not freedom any more.
That's fascism. Smart people know the difference.
You might also read Tamim Ansary's What Does It Mean to Be a Patriot? (Also here's a copy of his Sept 2001 the Taliban and Bin Laden are not Afghanistan article)
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