The "Standing Army" of which you speak has been crushing liberty and preventing freedom since 1898.

Once again, they concur with the hoboroadie.

It was pretty explicitly designed to prevent popular democracy. The founding fathers knew if the hoi polloi actually got control they'd get right to the jackassery- like the fucking Volstead act, (Seriously, wtf?)

I've got scruples.

It's a little more free-range here. The cops hate everyone else, even the rich, but if you are in their buddy club, you often get to skate.

I'm not particularly smart, but doesn't EVERYBODY already know those CIA fools are incompetent?

I use Chlorine compounds with discretion, and I eschewed Triclosan long before the FDA noted its questionable properties. I think that cleaning up other people's public filth*, moving Cow dung about the farm, and generally rooting around in dirt have adequately inoculated my system. I use a reasonable amount of water and simple soap products to try and keep a lid on the pathogenic stuff.
* I wash the hell out of my hands before I touch myelf- don't disrespect those Mycobacteriums...

The English Language is a marvelous, mutable thing, is it not?

I don't like to overwhelm my biodefenses. YMMV.

This is the preferred solution. After all that training, once an officer proves his eagerness to randomly break a few legs, it just won't do to let them go. That good LAPD conditioning has been disseminated throughout the country as these "rogue" cops take their skills and fucked-up attitudes out to rural America, the better to squelch any nascent bonds developing with the innocent citizens they intend to "protect and serve".

Yeah, that's what I tell him, but Fox News said Wikipedia was full of shit, so he won't reference it for anything useful, like organic chemistry & such.
He clung to dial-up for an amazingly long time, too. Netzero ftw!

My Dad won't read Wikipedia either. He gets his information from Fox News.

I sorta looked into this a few months back, and saw that the woman* running the site was soliciting for an on-line petition. I emailed her to say that whilst I sympathised with the want to prevent this sort of thing happening, her petition was a vague and indiscriminate demand for legislative action. I suggested that my support and that of anyone with both cerebral function, and an understanding of abstract concepts like liberty, &c., might be loath to encourage mindless action using this issue as yet another critically urgent pretext. I did get a form letter back, but it may have been automatic, it did not address my query. I reckon that it will be effective, just what the proponents of speech regulation and licensing have been waiting for.

*Not sure which one, it seems there's been a boom in that field.

I'm a nerd, not a hacker, but yeah. I was on the fencing team.

Sorry, I RTFA, it was unavoidable.
Looks like they might actually use the horsepower.