[PARKFAN]

I think people now are so fearful of their government that they are secretly glad the government is focused on some other victim. They think if they just huddle down low enough, long enough they will survive unscathed. Too often I hear people say that it is really bad but at least it won't happen in their lifetime. They do not know it has already happened.

[Eala]

I think people now are so fearful of their government that they are secretly glad the government is focused on some other victim. They think if they just huddle down low enough, long enough they will survive unscathed. Too often I hear people say that it is really bad but at least it won't happen in their lifetime. They do not know it has already happened.

I think you are generally correct. I don't perceive that people are so fearful they're glad it's someone else under the gun (as if the "gun" were inevitable), but I don't think the public in general sees the extent of the change that's occurred already. That's the problem with slow accomodation.

[RipSawyer]

"They do not know it has already happened."

How can a person born a slave understand freedom? We now have a generation of young adults who have no memory of life without the all encompassing tentacles of government. I dared to suggest on another thread recently that this country is not actually free and was called a "clueless ingrate" among other things. Some seem to think that because things were worse in Iraq that we must be free here but freedom is a superlative, there are no degrees of freedom, only degrees of repression and we have seen the jaws of repression slowly ratchet ever tighter for as long as I have been alive to see it. Only those who have the knowledge of history and the imagination to envision Davey Crockett coming back to life and what he would think of the present situation can comprehend what has happened.