[Zeno]

You may be ranting a bit. Just an observation.

I still maintain that this little, silly incident is just that: little and silly. Now if your initial post had been about the abuse of civil liberties that can be caused by the patriot act, then maybe the term "shades of fascism" would be appropriate. But even then, it is only a shade.

A truly fascist state is monstrous and oppressive, like Nazi Germany in 1938. We are far from this state of affairs in the US. You dilute the meaning of the term fascism by using it in this flippant way.
In my opinion.

-Zeno