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Very true indeed, what will future generations say about us doing nothing to stop "the Patriot Act", wire taps, and federal agents pointing at you-determining that you are a "terrorist" and without a judges warrant bust down your door, point a automatic rifle at you and your family doing what they want, hold you for as long as they want with no habeas corpus? I wonder? I still cant believe this bull past on our watch.
Can you please post one example where such was done in the past 8 years? Thanks...
I'll bet you're not and have never been a soldier either, right?
Since you wanted a quote - here's one for you -
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
That's the first sentence in the US Constitution. Notice how the section in red says exactly the opposite of your social darwinist diatribe.
I gather you're not a constitutional scholar. Let me speculate you also missed your scholarship to the Harvard School of Public Health as well, eh?
That could mean anything you want it to. Do you support the drug war (another abuse of powers BTW)? How about things like in the "Minority Report" movie? Segregationists thought "Jim Crow" would promote the general welfare too.
How did you arrive at "one generation" as the timespan? In nearly all cases of diespotism, the autocrat wiped out prior constitutional contracts in a matter of hours, days,weeks, or months. Furthermore, there will never be a time when a single generation constitutes a majority. so no gemeration would be able to bring about such change by non-revolutionary means. Do you think it took a generation for Hitler, Pol Pot, Pinochet, to make the transition? People were awakened in the middle of the night and told about their loss of freedom. Sleep with a pair of pants next to the bed, because that is how quickly freedom disappears.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
I view it as freedom is only one VOTE away from extinction.
No vote is necessary., The guys in there now will take it if they are convinced that it is "in America's best interests".
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