Bush's Brother To Restrict Freedom Of Travel

When Lefties are being lectured by the sanctimonious and uninformed Right, we are often told that we supported, simply by being Lefties, the totalitarian excesses of the old communist Soviet Union. We didn't support any such thing, but that's never going to impact on them...still...

One of the things that is held up as most indicative of a totalitarian state like the old Soviet one - or Hitler's Germany for that matter - was that the regime restricted freedom of movement so that the influx of new ideas, possibly dangerous to the State's control, could be prevented and the exit of all the nation's best minds be stymied.

Still, that could never happen in America.

Think again.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush said he will likely sign a bill that would make Florida one of the most restrictive states in the nation for college professors and students interested in traveling abroad.

The bill bans travel to five countries identified as "terrorist states," including Cuba, WESH 2 News reported.

Professors and students alike are angered by a proposal to ban scholarly travel to five countries.

Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea and the Sudan would all be off-limits for college or university-sponsored research trips if Bush signs the bill passed by lawmakers earlier this month.

Thing is, this smells awfully like a trial balloon to me. Try it in lil' brother's pet state and see if the libertarians, the human rights groups and the Dems make a stink. If not, then extend it to the whole nation.

Could we be seeing the beginnings of a restriction of Americans' rights to move freely beyond their own borders? What's next? Papers giving permission to cross state boundaries?

There's some seriously scary sh*t coming from the Bush family nowadays.