Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 969
I spent some formative years in the US as a child and learned one thing above all that really stuck with me:
Government by the people for the people.
It would appear to me that the current Administration has utterly lost sight of this little idea. In addition, the Congress appears almost unwilling to exercise any form of government.
Now, in addition to all this, the federal government wants US citizens to carry "papers" (what else is an ID?) with them when they travel in their own country!
The terrorists had (and I'm sure could have again) these types of "papers". Even today various forms of ID (green cards, driver's licences) are available at major street corners if you have enough of your own papers (money).
It may be time for citizens to start staging civil protests.
Your representatives appear to be on an on-the-job holiday. Your Kin- er - *cough* President is named George and appears to have decided that he is a power unto himself (my favorite so far is the attempt to retroactively apply new laws). Your government has for years tortured foreign nationals and left them devoid of rights by dropping them onto a military base that isn't in the US.
Everytime one of these things is done, it is done in your name. Your fathers and mothers (along with those of folks in many other countries) died to ensure that nothing like this could ever happen in the US.
I was horrified and sorry when the Towers where attached, as were civilized people all over the earth. None the less, I doubt that those people are well served by having their country begin to resemble a government controlled armed camp! I imagine the only folks happy about this turn of events are those bastards in Al-Qaeda and their ilk.
Finally, perhaps I could and would remain silent were it not for the following:
1. I don't think any of the measures that have been taken or are being taken really heighten the individual security of US citizens.
2. I do think that many of the measures materially reduce your rights as free citizens. As these rights are removed so are your freedoms.
3. I think this kind of change and fear mongering could barely have been imagined in Al-Qaeda's fondest wet dreams.
4. I am terrified that by the time we all wake up from this nightmare it will be too late. The yolk will be firmly shacked around our necks.
Remember:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
Write your congressmen or congresswoman. Write your state officials. Write the Whitehouse. It is your country and only you can let it slip away.
*GASP*
That was a damn sight more than I intended to say!