I am always amazed when someone says: “I haven’t done anything wrong. I have nothing to fear.” If you have nothing to fear from the government, why did the Founding Fathers put the protections in the Constitution that Bush and Obama have stripped out? Unlike the Founding Fathers who designed our government to protect the citizens, the American sheeple trust the government to their own demise.

In the famous play, “A Man For All Seasons,” Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, asks: So, you would have me to cut down the law in order to chase after devils? And what will we do, with the law cut down, when the devil turns on us?

From Paul Craig Roberts here.

I too wonder what people aren’t thinking when they say “it will never happen to me”.

The patriot act is used more for drug arrests than terrorism arrests.  Who knows what flimsy excuse is being made to invade our privacy to justify an arrest.  You have to remember all these spy agencies and as well as the DHS, FBI, DEA, ATF have to justify their existence.  That means arrests.  Pay raises and promotions depend on it.  Actual guilt is a secondary consideration.

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