QUOTE(Kiln @ Jul 16 2013, 04:52 PM)

"for the good of the people".
I think Pop-Up Video back in '97 had a tidbit of info saying the Intelligence Community suspected 74% of the population was involved in 'clandestine' operations.
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I subscribe to the old saying that those who would trade personal liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither.
Benjamin Franklin, 177-something.
Full agreement.
The country was founded by progressive thinking probably some-form-of-autism, definitely philandering, philosophical, war-mongerin', self-startin', unashamedly agnostic, intellectual freethinkers.
John Hancock's signature was the middle finger of his day.
And what are we doing now?
The exact same thing King George was.Taking away our civil rights under an increasingly despotic police state.
Hey, you're encouraging revolution!No. I love this country and the principles it was founded under, but isn't acting on. I *AM* saying get your heads out of your butts and maybe things won't look so crappy. I *AM* saying that if you keep this up, it just might come to it, and suddenly we're all under martial law 'for our protection'.
I really don't want *any* of that to happen.