- May 12, 2001
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After a discussion with a friend yesterday he said the phrase from the title and i realized that I agree.
I am more fearful that the government acting through one of its many agencies will "harm" me than the Taliban, AQ, the Russians or any other "foreign" entity they claim to be protecting me from.
They are the most poised to arrest me and hold me, to confiscate my belongings or to cause me grief the rest of my life through considered 'legal' means and I have very little recourse to fight it. We as Americans have little recourse against any of it.
Our elected officials operate in the shadows and our agencies spy on our own citizens. The agency that's tasked with collecting taxes is targeting political groups. If it has to do with foreign policy, it's marked as 'classified' and the People don't get a say.
We've got legislators making laws on things that they are least educated on. See Democrats/Liberals on regulating guns ("The shoulder thing that comes up" and "when all the ammunition is shot the magazines will be useless") and the Republicans and their endless ignorance on the aftermath of rape.
It's worse punishment to get caught in NY with an 8th round in your pistol than several violent crimes that actually HAVE victims.
How do we change the course of our country when letters written with sincerity to your congressmen/women are responded to with canned responses essentially telling you to go pound sand.
I feel that our populace is so uneducated on the issues facing our country and actually WANT to remain that way because it's depressing and too much to think about. We'd rather watch our soap operas and Dancing With the Stars. We've had the wool pulled over our eyes and become so polarized that as long as "our team" wins and sticks it to the [insert R/D] then good! I've been ignorant and a victim of confirmation bias and only listening to things that confirmed what I've come to believe. A few members here such as Craig have helped me attempt to broaden my view and filter things more effectively.
Are we heading in the right direction? Do you fear the government? More than the Russians and Chinese and AQ? The terrorists have won .. ..
I've for long denied myself the fantasy of a tinfoil hat revolution of any sort, but having been the victim of a frog in boiling water for too long I see this country going downhill and very few ways to correct the path.
/Illuminati
/black helicopters
I am more fearful that the government acting through one of its many agencies will "harm" me than the Taliban, AQ, the Russians or any other "foreign" entity they claim to be protecting me from.
They are the most poised to arrest me and hold me, to confiscate my belongings or to cause me grief the rest of my life through considered 'legal' means and I have very little recourse to fight it. We as Americans have little recourse against any of it.
Our elected officials operate in the shadows and our agencies spy on our own citizens. The agency that's tasked with collecting taxes is targeting political groups. If it has to do with foreign policy, it's marked as 'classified' and the People don't get a say.
We've got legislators making laws on things that they are least educated on. See Democrats/Liberals on regulating guns ("The shoulder thing that comes up" and "when all the ammunition is shot the magazines will be useless") and the Republicans and their endless ignorance on the aftermath of rape.
It's worse punishment to get caught in NY with an 8th round in your pistol than several violent crimes that actually HAVE victims.
How do we change the course of our country when letters written with sincerity to your congressmen/women are responded to with canned responses essentially telling you to go pound sand.
I feel that our populace is so uneducated on the issues facing our country and actually WANT to remain that way because it's depressing and too much to think about. We'd rather watch our soap operas and Dancing With the Stars. We've had the wool pulled over our eyes and become so polarized that as long as "our team" wins and sticks it to the [insert R/D] then good! I've been ignorant and a victim of confirmation bias and only listening to things that confirmed what I've come to believe. A few members here such as Craig have helped me attempt to broaden my view and filter things more effectively.
Are we heading in the right direction? Do you fear the government? More than the Russians and Chinese and AQ? The terrorists have won .. ..
I've for long denied myself the fantasy of a tinfoil hat revolution of any sort, but having been the victim of a frog in boiling water for too long I see this country going downhill and very few ways to correct the path.
/Illuminati
/black helicopters
