What does lying have to do with rational debate?
Pax wrote: What does conducting a terror campaign upon the people
have to do with a government of the people, by the people and for the people?
Mojave wrote: What does lying have to do with rational debate?
It is no lie that the lack of results in a generations long civil war(WOD) relegates all action taken by the government as significant only for the TERROR that it inflicts upon the citizenry in effort to control their appetites. (Not a Constitutionally mandated federal power!) The DEAmen are the Taliban of America.
FBI definition of terrorism: "The unlawful use of or threatened use of force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."