[Darnright]

>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.<

You most certainly were right. As much as I dislike LBJ, his words were and are alarmingly true in this day and age:

“You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.” Lyndon Baines Johnson

[Carry_Okie]

You most certainly were right. As much as I dislike LBJ...

The father of modern indentured constituency.

His progenitor was more to the point:

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. - Franklin D. Roosevelt