You obviously have not read any of my second to last post. I have transformed myself as a right-wing conservative in reaction to the LIBERAL BRAINWASHING running rampant on today's campuses. You might not believe this but I was once pro-choice, in favor of government programs for the lower class, and a secularist. I have experienced alot of socialist ideas while in college in Georgia and here in Connecticut. In both of my fields, history and political science (foreign relations) professors have some socialist agenda at hand.

By my own accord I realized I was wrong, and a true and honorable way of life cannot be achieved by believing in those concepts.

You claim that my 'parrying' of Nu2Salt's claims are "pseudo-intellectucal obfuscations." Either you regard my argument as baseless and stupid , or you do not know the definition of obfuscation. I immediately dismiss the latter because I can tell you know your stuff. My confusing rhetoric is only confusing to those who are reading it and know little of the matter, or those who do not know the subject at all my dear friend. No offense, but why is the more names, facts and terrorist specifics I mention, the more 'confusing' it becomes?

You are correct in asserting the fact that 'disloyal' citizens helped dissolve the USSR. But in the US we do not have an oppressive regime, nor an authoritarian society, but instead a democracy. Therefore disloyalty equals aiding those who want to end our way of life (i.e the terrorists, Enemies within). I'd rather see disloyalty if the government was oppressive and if those insurgents were intelligent enough to successfully replace, restablish and reform a new government (afterall, stupid people tyring to alter a government may not be worthy).

Similar to you, my mother fled communism, and she gets annoyed when people compare our President to a dictatorship. I have taken many courses on Cold War USSR/ Eastern Europe and have read Gulag but that was about 3 years ago and found it boring . I also read Koestler's Darkness at Noon last spring as well as Solzhenitsien's (sp.) Letters to the Soviet Leaders (both better readings). The system described by your former government at that time is advocated by professor's here in the US now...and if anybody should be concerened it should be you.