OMG - It's 1950 all over again!



I used to laugh at my friends when they said the age of McCarthyism was returning to America. This morning, my laughter ended.

"Fargo City Commissioner Linda Coates is among more than 40 area residents included on a list of people barred from attending President Bush's speech today in Fargo."

"33 on list connected to FM Democracy group"

These are the headlines greeting me in this morning's paper.

The list includes citizens who have written letters to the editor criticizing GOP policies, and even a high school student who organized a protest rally against the marriage amendment. I guess we have free speech in America, but you best not practice it!

Read more if you dare, but I caution you, what you read in the following is disturbing.

Here are links to today's articles in the Fargo Forum online newspaper, the In-Forum:

Coates on do-not-admit list -- PDF print version

33 on list connected to F-M democracy group -- PDF print version

Here are some excerpts from the second article that are very frightening:

"A quick search through the Internet and The Forum's archives revealed some information about the people on the list. At least 33 of the 42 people on the list are or have been members of the Fargo-Moorhead Democracy for America Meetup Group."

Here are just a few of the entries:

Mark Folse: The Fargo man wrote a letter to The Forum in November saying Bush has created greater division of the country than ever."

Amanda Hanson: The Fargo woman is an inactive member of the Fargo-Moorhead Democracy for America Meetup Group.

Annie Krapu: The Fargo Shanley High School senior helped organize a youth rally in October against the proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and civil unions.

Nathan Schoenack: The Moorhead man wrote a letter to The Forum last spring calling the Bush administration's reasons to go to war "disingenuous at best, if not outright lies." The Moorhead man is a member of the Fargo-Moorhead Democracy for America Meetup Group.

Cara Taylor: The Fargo woman wrote in a 2002 letter to The Forum saying, "The pursuit of equality for people of all orientations may be considered a more noble calling."

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