Then he could take them out to dinner and as they cowered and ducked at every siren he could laugh at them and explain to them that our war only had one real bad bombing about 7 years back but still, you never know when they might strike again. I'd love to see the looks on their faces as they tried to fathom shooter's willingness to live with the lack of freedoms they had to during a real war. They'd see him for the unAmerican coward we all do.

We have government by hysteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria

Control people via their emotions.

The state religion of "the war on drugs" has now had a revelation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation

Terror is the new Satan, forever to be warred upon.

To believe without reason:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith

First they came for the dopers, but when they came for thee there was no one left to stand up for you since they were coming for all those who dared to speak out.

Think of the number of liberties you have let slide in the venal, vicious and totally irrational "war on drugs".

It's almost worth it to watch the sucker's faces as they too slowly realize what they've allowed to happen.

Mencken's Creed

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty...

I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...

I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.

I believe in the reality of progress.

I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

Government, like fire, is a powerful tool and a frightful master.

I pity those who allow it to surround and engulf them.

Do you have children or grandchildren?

Better wake up and smell the Zyklon B.

Outstanding question.

I ask Salon readers and kindred souls, in all sincerety, what are we to do?

Something or other to do with "our sacred honor".

IMO, of course.

If you speak the truth aloud.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

So the question becomes has this activity of surveillance been going on long before the Bush administration?

Census information is supposed to be sacrosanct yet it was used during WWII to locate and incarcerate Americans of Japanese origin.

That's it in a nutshell.. The sheeple must look heavenward else all is lost.

The wolf is always at the door.

I really hate it when life turns out like a bad B movie.

You will obey me while I lead you

And eat the garbage that I feed you

Until the day that we dont need you

Dont got for help...no one will heed you

Your mind is totally controlled

It has been stuffed into my mold

And you will do as you are told

Until the rights to you are sold -Frank Zappa

The really funny part is the demand for Government to furnish healthcare to everyone, which requires REALLY intimate knowledge be circulated around hither and yon.

You'll have REALLY intimate knowledge squirted hither and you around the globe already.

Condi Rice's tendency to, uh, stretch the truth aside, flying planes into buildings was not only predicted, but guarded against at the G8 meetings in Genoa.

I had forgotten about that..

Makes the Secret Service's lack of reaction at Booker elementary look even more strange.

They knew hijacked planes were a threat to POTUS and left him in that school for at least half an hour after they learned that hijacked planes were flying around the country striking high value targets.

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." --- Aldous Huxley

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Weren't the events of 9/11/2001 a political act?

Y'all let this happen when you refused to stand up for the dopers being hauled away in middle-of-the-night-no-knock-raids.

Nixon started the modern day war on drugs in order to strike back at all the dirty fuckin' hippies that he blamed for bringing down his administration.

Now Tricky Dicky has the last laugh from his grave.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. -Ben Franklin

You let the government single out certain citizens as being second, or even no, class. Now we will all pay the price for your negligence, stupidity and inattention.

This stuff is not rocket science, it's pathetically easy for anyone not totally blinded by government propaganda to figure out that the eighteenth and twentieth amendments being so close together in time is an unequivocal rebuttal to the concept of prohibition being a positive force in society.

Watching y'all here come to the slow realization of just what is happening has a certain kind of bittersweet schadenfreude to it. Rather like the scent of bitter almonds.

I weep for the world my grandchildren will inherit.