Protecting America from ... ?

I read this first on BoingBoing. "Korean War hero branded a terrorist by draft-dodging Shrub." The Shrub, of course, is our own President. Then I read about this on The Huffington Post, which linked to another article on the subject.

Retired Marine Colonel Walter F. Murphy, on his way to a conference, was (initially) denied a boarding pass because he was on the no-fly list (AKA terrorist watch list, I kid you not). Col. Murphy is a professor of political science, and gave a speech last year that was critical of the President. That's all anyone can guess as to his being placed on the "list". In fact the TSA clerk supposed this very thing.

That's right. If you publicly criticize the administration, you can be labeled a "terrorist". Never mind the First Amendment or any of that stuff, we have to protect "America". Hence the title to this entry.

Just exactly who are we trying to protect America from? From the look of it, it's us Americans.