2006-11-16

RE: Patriot Act

The following are some of my favorite anti-war quotes (the original list goes on and on):
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
    ~George Washington
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    ~Benjamin Franklin
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
    ~Voltaire
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...
    ~Robert A. Heinlein
Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...
    ~Alfred Adler
Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
    ~George W. Bush
      talk about irony
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
    ~Frank Kent
      I've often said I believe we deserve better but have no one to blame but ourselves!
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
    ~James Madison
The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.
    ~Butler Shaffer
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
    ~James Madison
      wow - how appropriate and timely is that?

You'd think that we'd eventually learn to listen, rather than shut out?

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