Great cartoon. Thanks. Interesting that the editorial content of it stirred different emotions in both of us. We both share resentment of thugs and brutal subversion of other humans. You then took it to the next level of justifying action against Al Quaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. We do agree they're all terrible organizations that resort to violence to push their political aims and need to be brought to justice when they do criminal acts.

Here's where we differed though. The message I got from the cartoon was this. Nazi's and Fascists cannot be allowed to grow. They must be stopped from the onset by the citizens of the country they sprout in. They can only rise to power with the blind and accepting eye of a populace that is afraid to speak out against them. They begin with seemingly innocuous steps and often by generating fear and making it "unpatriotic" to question their methods of securing the homeland.

Things that were once unacceptable are ok in the face of required security. Neighbors are asked to heighten their alert for suspicious activity. Wholesale spying and accumulation of citizen data is ok as long as the goal is rooting out the bad ones among us. Issues become black and white, us against them.

You don't read Non Sequitor much do you David? If you did you'd understand that the goal of the author was not to make you want to stand up against Al Quaida and Hamas but instead to become a watchdog against our own government. The political extremism Wiley talks about isn't the evil machinations of Bin Laden but the rise of extremism within our own borders. It'd do you good to read this comic more often. Not sure you'd get the same message if you did.

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