[af_vet_rr]

It isn't going to change your life. However, some believe that they are on the barricades facing down a snarling American government that is just looking for the opportunity to limit individual rights and re-cast society into a brutal totalitarian state that would make 1984 look like a progressive summer camp for the children of rich hippie parents.

None of us here speaking out against more government powers, more searches, etc., think we are "on the barricades facing down a snarling American government".

I can't speak for the others, but I'm speaking out against these kinds of things for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

You see, I have 20-40 years left to live theoretically. All of these incremental changes, they are just that, incremental. I won't notice them that much.

But a descendent of mine, 80 years from now, if they could experience life in America of the 1980s or 1990s, compared to life in America in 2080, they are going to wonder "why'd you let us down, why'd you let the statists get control of this country, why'd you let them take our freedom and our privacy?".

[durasell]

Everything changes and always had. I once sat on a plane next to an old woman who thought the loss of silverware and linen napkins on cross country flights was a tragedy.

Not to compare the trivial with the important, but everything really does change, always.