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I can't say I harbor any great animosity towards road builders in Germany in the 1930s.

• dragontamer 13y ago
  And ditto to us Americans as well. WWII was filled with errors, and yet our ideals have remained strong. A brief history lesson: Office of Censorship, Atomic Bomb (historic Kyoto was on the list of places to utterly demolished... fortunately the Japanese surrendered before then), Napalm-based firebombings against a civilian population (Japan). Blatant racism in the form of the Japanese Internment camps, etc. The existence of these programs are in direct contradiction to many principles that America stands for... especially the Office of Censorship. But we don't hold any ill-will towards our Grandfathers during that time. At worst, we recognize the specific faults in the specific laws in the context of the time period, and then write laws to ensure it never happens again. Same thing will happen here. "Feds" in general were not related to this controversy. Showing ill-will to such a large group of people is straight up bigotry. We have the intelligence today to focus our energies on specific departments, specific people... specific regulations that have gone wrong in this case. And that is what law is about. Figuring out the root of the problem and eradicating it. Painting entire groups of people (aka, "The Feds") with a single brush is wrong.