Our government can now imprison our citizens indefinitely, without so much as letting them speak to a lawyer, if they arbitrarily deem them an "enemy combatant."
Our government spies on our phone calls.
Our government spies on our bank accounts.
Our government wants to implement national ID cards and require us to have them.
These ideas would have seemed preposterous 30 years ago. I thought the American way was life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty is meaningless to most people now. Instead of happiness people are pursuing security, which is impossible, since life is inherently unsafe.
2006-07-10
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