Reply #257: It's the normalization and the insidiousness of the process that's so scary; [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

particularly, when you see someone you'd assumed to be politically 'savvy' has been so readily sucked in by it all without even realising it. I don't think the vinyl ripper was bothered about his shopping options being circumscribed.

What I'd meant to say about that judge was that I'd read he was involved in some para or quasi totalitarian business in another connection.