[SBeck]

Fred on target and loaded for bear. Fire away.

[WhiskeyPapa]

"1984" arrived and nobody even noticed.

Walt

[El Gato]

the confiscation from an aging general of his Congressional Medal of Honor because it had points

Make that attempted confiscation. General Foss wasn't about to let 'em take. They're lucky he didn't beat 'em to a bloody pulp with his cane. :)

[Great Dane]

It wasn't always this way....... oh, for a return to the good old days, when you could speak your mind and do as you pleased as long as no one else got hurt.

[WindMinstrel]

ping. Fred's good today

[Hemingway's Ghost]

And we obey. We are the obedient people.

That's because for many of us, life is too good. Heaven forbid if the economy really goes south . . .

[TomSmedley]

It is the exercise of power by people who have no business having any.

And we obey. We are the obedient people.

It starts in grade school, when you have to ask permission before using the bathroom. Start and stop thinking on command, and only about the commanded block of information. (the material being studied is irrelevent, as long as the habit of obedient thinking is mastered.)

However, the first wave of home-educated adults is hitting the scene, with millions more behind 'em. Folks not trained in habits of obedience to bureaucrats. Quite the opposite, in fact.