And that is probably the toughest lesson we all have to learn from this state of affairs.
Those we have entrusted to hold our freedoms in place have failed us. I think it would be safe to say, that it is those very people who have done the most to destroy our freedoms.
The Representative class has gone from being simply derelict in their duties, to being avowed and knowing enemies of The People.
What's obvious to me, is that the people have allowed this state of affairs to worsen to this level, through their own misguided trust in those representatives and gov't agencies, but also because of their own dereliction of duty to themselves and their countrymen.
It appears to me that this country is headed for "change" of some sort. We are all going to be involved in it, whether we want to, or not. Every one of us is responsible for the condition of this nation (good and bad) through our action or inaction.
We can all wait for a seminal event to make a choice on what to do, but the fight has already begun. We're losing because too many of us don't see that we're under attack, and are not fighting back.
When that seminal, triggering event does come, we will all have a choice; to either become cause, or to remain effect (as we are now). Let us hope that by that time, we're still in a position to even make that choice.
I don’t think we will lose. There is a real grassroots movement to go back to the constitution and to be watchful of what is happening, taking whatever action is necessary. We may lose some fights, but by George, the media won’t be able to suppress the clamour of it!
Maybe this is the best thing that has ever happened to us. We’ve been losing freedoms little by little and we didn’t even know it. Now we wake up to see how close we are to a dictatorship and see how it can happen. The groundwork has been laid for it over the years and decades, now it is coming harvest time and Obama is the one who thinks he can harvest the rewards. He’s wrong. You know the phase “let sleeping tigers lie.” We’re waking up now.