People ask me all the time how I could live in a communistic country. I read articles like this one where the Senate just voted to give itself powers to arrest someone as a suspected terrorist and hold them indefinetly without a trial, and I realize that there is no difference between us and a communistic country....and it passed 63 to 7 (where were the other 30 senators that were absent??)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/senate-votes-to-let-military-detain-americans-indefinitely_n_1119473.html
If they are passing legislation like this it is because they feel they need it, and intend to use it.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
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