Heroic, professional.

Editor,

I think the U.S. is becoming more like Stalin's Soviet Union than Hitler's Germany: more furtive, less flamboyant, more clandestine, less grandiose.

Posters on the NYT comments pages will probably be imprisoned, tortured, and thrown out of helicopters into the sea in the first wave of round-ups after the American Freedom From Sedition Law is signed by our next Republican president in January, 2013.

Shoppers will be informed that the worst of the worst domestic terrorists are being detained in prisons run as humanely as only our heroic professional men and women in uniform can.

Re: "Charges Announced for Soldier Accused of Leaking Video" (7/7/2010)