[OafOfOffice]

I warned FReepers at the time of the formation of DHS and the PATRIOT Act that they were but excuses to consolidate powers to be turned over to a leftist president at the end of the Bush Administration.

explain this a little more please?

[Carry_Okie]

explain this a little more please?

There was a reason the Founders preferred a militia to a standing army: The concentration of power away from the people is too easily turned against them. That is but one reason why we had limited government in the first place.

The corollary is that concentrated power ALWAYS serves the interests of the politically dominant at the expense of everybody else, antithetical to a system designed to secure unalienable rights.