[renosathug]

Basically, it's all about power. There are those who will go along with each and every scheme which erodes individual rights, including, ultimately, their own, as long as they get a bit of time on the team enforcing the power.

[The Westerner]

Bought this little framed saying by T. Jefferson at Monticello:

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

from a letter to James Madison.

Would Jefferson be labeled a radical today?