[neverdem]

Ping

[tet68]

I suppose Mark is right about this but somehow I would
prefer killing at a distance rather than watching the
light go out of someones eyes because I plunged a
bayonet into their heart, and besides blood stains
are hard to remove from herringbone twill.

[Travis McGee]

"Do you remember the way it was before the war on terror? Back in the Nineties, everyone was worried about militias and survivalists, who lived in what were invariably described as “compounds,” and not in the Kennedys-at-Hyannisport sense. And every so often one of these compound-dwellers would find himself besieged by a great tide of federal alphabet soup, agents from the DEA, ATF, FBI, and maybe even RRB. There was a guy called Randy Weaver who lost his wife, son, and dog to the guns of federal agents, was charged and acquitted in the murder of a deputy marshal, and wound up getting a multi-million-dollar settlement from the Department of Justice. Before he zipped his lips on grounds of self-incrimination, the man who wounded Weaver and killed his wife, an FBI agent called Lon Horiuchi, testified that he opened fire because he thought the Weavers were about to fire on a surveillance helicopter. When you consider the resources brought to bear against a nobody like Randy Weaver for no rational purpose, is it really so “far-fetched” to foresee the Department of Justice deploying drones to the Ruby Ridges and Wacos of the 2020s?"

[onona]

Who would have ever thought we'd be first hand witnesses to the downfall of our own society.

Or has it always been happening, and now it just seems to be advancing so rapidly ?

Either way, sad and frightening. I fear for my children, but I wonder, will they know any difference when they are older ?

[Carry_Okie]

Seeing as you clearly don't recognize the slippery slope we're on, I suggest you read the article.

Steyn does.

[right way right]

My question to the the regime is, Are you going to use drones on a million protesters on the DC mall this time?

Rand Paul, are your here?

What if some of the protesters are armed?

I think these are legitimate questions. (though I never thought I would be asking them ).

Nobody ever comments.

[Gritty]

The central defect of America’s “war on terror,” is that it’s all means and no end – Mark Steyn

True. But that is only because the Liberal's don't care about "victory".

However, the Liberal's "war on guns" has both a means and an end. When they get serious about something, they get really serious. They can also precisely define "victory" and "the enemy".