[rodguy911]

Good for you PerConPat, many of us do so as well.

Sometimes I am glad I too have experienced those 6 decades as well but fear for my family that hasn't.

I guess that we take so many things for granted in the US that the mentality of "it could never happen here" just overwhelms some to the point of caving into near anything.

Not I.

I have traveled and seen what tyranny can bring, I want no part of it.

[PerConPat]

I have traveled and seen what tyranny can bring, I want no part of it.

Same here...It would be the bitterest of ironies if these midterm elections result in a weakened US posture. One that emboldens the terrorists and eventually leads to a crackdown that makes the Bush administration's actions, in retrospect, seem like those of a strict schoolmaster.