mojo84 wrote:Developing the spiderweb of connections can be very dangerous to our Liberty and Freedom. Based upon the 6 degrees of separation theory, we may all be connected to some nefarious characters that are up to no good even though we do not have direct contact with them. Very scary slippery slope if you ask me, which of course you didn't. ;)
No "can be" about it. It IS dangerous to our liberty and freedom.
I honestly cannot believe that this is the country I live in. We
used to hold this kind of stuff up as examples of why the USSR was an "
evil empire." Now, we have to consider that THIS is what we are in the midst of becoming......not an empire, necessarily, but burdened with an
evil government. Suddenly, we're only
marginally different than China or Russia. When our guns are outlawed, there will be NO difference......
"We can still travel freely," one might say. I say, "have you ever tried to come back
into the country?" I say, "not without having to deal with TSA at airports, train stations, and bus stations, including highway checkpoints within 100 miles of the border." I say, "so what. The Chinese can travel too." "At least we don't have to show our papers to move about," one might say. I say, "you haven't traveled in the last 10 years, have you?"
One might say, "yeah, but we have constitutional protections!" I say, "Do we? Is what the NSA is doing consistent with your 4th Amendment rights? Is what the IRS has been doing consistent with your 1st Amendment rights? Is what the government has been trying to do to restrict your gun rights consistent with the 2nd Amendment? When this administration reserves the right to use weaponized drones against American citizens
inside of our borders, is that consistent with the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments? Is there ANY part of the Bill of Rights that is not consistently violated wholesale by government, except the 3rd Amendment? I can assure you that when the violation of Amendments 1,2, & 4-10 become egregious enough, they will also being violating the 3rd Amendment. Just how bad does it have to get before you'll begin to smell the coffee?"
That guy One Might Say is an idiot, and the nation is full of people just like him—people who are
willfully blind. The only thing that will open the eyes of a willfully blind person is when things get SO bad, SO violent, SO frightening, that it actually confronts them within the context of their own denial, and they can no longer deny it. The reaction of the fMSM recently to the Obama scandals is a perfect example. They just couldn't get that worked up about the IRS scandal because it targeted those whom they dislike. But once the AP spying story broke, all of a sudden the fMSM are confronted with the depth of this administration's evil, and they are now willing to look for and see that evil in domains where they had previously deliberately ignored it. And because of that, they are paying attention to the NSA story. So now, FINALLY, you've the official opinion of the NYT Editorial Board saying that the Obama Administration has "lost all credibility on these issues" (their words, not mine):
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opini ... .html?_r=0, and they are taking him severely to task. I never thought I'd see the day when the NYT would finally wake up to Obama's evil. But now that they are threatened, they can't beat him up on their pages fast enough.
