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"Ignorance is the first step toward fascism."
by Jessi Winchester, Author of From Bordello to Ballot Box

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence
clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken, Political Journalist, 1880-1956

It felt more like the occupation of a Third World nation than the gathering of revelers celebrating the dawn of a new year. Snipers manned rooftops, tanks roamed the streets, armed airships hovered in restricted airspace above the celebration, troops from every imaginable agency searched party goers' backpacks, and names and personal information of everyone flying or staying in hotels was handed over to the FBI without a whimper. No, this wasn't Warsaw, Poland or a TV history program about Hitler's Germany . . . it was Las Vegas on New Year's Eve. Yet the staggering number of people who are oblivious to history or what is happening in their own country under their own nose is amazing. Americans in droves are willing to give up their freedom for the false promise of safety. Assaults on our liberties are right out in the open and before our very eyes yet we spinelessly acquiesce without protest. After all, we want to be safe - at ANY cost!

posted by A Curmudgeon 3:30 PM