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* [[George W. Bush]] famously said, "Either you're with us, or you're with the enemy; either you're with those who love freedom, or you're with those who hate innocent life."
** ''[[Mallard Fillmore]]'' remarked on a Liberal Professor pulling a [[Godwin's Law|Godwin]] on Bush's remark by reminding him that [[Not So Different|his generation was the one that made "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem" a famous rallying cry.]]
** Note that when a head of state takes this tack its actually prescriptive rather than descriptive -- that is, the act of declaring it publicly actually makes it come true. In this instance, since the head of government of a nation is the person who decides exactly who the enemies of his nation ''are'', if he says 'anyone who isn't with us is an enemy'... well, then they're his nation's enemy.
* As mentioned earlier, Message Boards. This mostly applies to religious and political boards, but can (and usually will) extend to everything else. Anyone who has spent enough time on boards will know that there's often topics where you either agree with a completely insane statement or you're branded as whatever is the opposite of the poster's ideology/beliefs/whatever (examples of popular insults: [[Dirty Communists|communist]]/[[Corrupt Corporate Executive|selfish capitalist]], [[Satan]]ist/[[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions|superstitious nutjob]], far-left/far-right, [[Depraved Homosexual|homosexual]]/[[Heteronormative Crusader|homophobe]] [this one usually appears just for opposing ANY opinion]). [[Troll]]s are often to blame for this.
* In Canada, the federal Public Safety minister tried to bully criticism about a pending online snooping act with the line "You either stand with us or the child pornographers" in the House of Commons. This statement caused howls noting that he is smearing every provincial Privacy Commissioner who expressed deep concerns about the bill and provoked online retaliation with many people twittering their minute personal details to the Minister while another threw all the court info of his messy divorce online.
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