This is a great read, really showing how most Americans are just sitting on the sidelines smiling and waiving as the Neo-cons further their agenda at the expense of our rights as a citizen of the United States of America.
Ever since September 11, the American people have been all too happy to let the FEDGOV do whatever it pleases. We applaud the USA PATRIOT Act. We submit to the TSA grope-and-grab at airports. We have no objection to warrantless searches. We could care less if Uncle Sam monitors our e-mails and phone calls. After all, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" and "your civil liberties don't matter if you're dead."
My response to this is: "Just how do you know you have nothing to hide?"
Consider the following:
* Americans have already accepted all ten policy planks of the Communist Manifesto as the law of the land.
* Millions of Americans don't mind one bit that we have the world's highest incarceration rate.
* The Federal Register, Uncle Sam's compendium of laws and regulations with which you and I are required to comply, runs 70,000 pages. Do you know what is in there? Do you? If you violate it, prepare to don an orange jumpsuit.
* The Internal Revenue code runs 11,000,000 words. Again: do you know what is in there?
The worst part of the post-9/11 agenda is Uncle Sam's assumption of power to imprison terror suspects arbitrarily and indefinitely without formal charges, without the right to face their accuser, without a jury trial or without any semblance of due process whatsoever.
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