238 years ago, Benjamin Franklin wrote,
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
It looks like ole' Ben wouldn't like what is going on now in Washington.
GreenMachine,
I think Arizoni summed it up.
And I'll add that in a free society, a person looks to himself to fill his needs, and privately contracts and trades with people of his choosing.
When people look to government to solve their needs, then they have delivered themselves into tyranny, whether wittingly or not.
I realize that it's difficult to grasp truth in the midst of such a continuous barrage of media propaganda. Here's an example to simplify things. A "terrorist" might be able to kill someone, or blow up a city block or a sports event. But only the government can destroy all that America has ever been or will become, by obliterating the Constitution and the American way of life, and putting people into chains under the false pretense of "security".
In other words, the intent of government to move into this intrusive and oppressive direction poses a far far greater danger to this nation than any terrorist ever could. "Terrorists" are small potatoes compared to the danger of government at this time. "Terrorists" are essentially "the boogeyman" used by government as the excuse to push their total domination scheme into action. Don't think it's true? Just watch them do it. There's nobody that can stop them but the American people, and the American people are too brainwashed to even see what is going on, and are cheering "USA, USA, USA" while it all goes down, just like Germany in 1938.
I certainly recognize that this is not just a Democrat vs Republican issue, and it's more or less a "tag team" process which is going on.
And I fully understand that those who are coming into this concept from a completely uninitiated perspective, having been thinking that what they are told by gov't and media are anywhere near "truth", may very well find my opinions to seem ludicrous and preposterous.
This would be "my 2 cents" on the matter.
And these 2 cents come from more than 40 years of watching what they are doing, and being able to recognize the vector, the strategies, and the tactics.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I don't expect, or ask for, agreement with my positions. They are presented as information for anyone to do with as they wish.
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance".