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To: archy
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison

127 posted on 11/25/2002 3:54:50 PM PST by watcher1
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To: watcher1
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison

Just so. If, and it's a BIG if, our foreign enemies are thwarted by the new and improved internal security forces, then they'll have no place to turn to maintain their budgets and staffing figures but on domestic targets. And they will, just as Hoover's FBI began with the immigrants and labour movement targets of the *Palmer raids* and then grew into the omnivorous beast it is today.

And of course, as they drive Americans further and further from the promise of what America was to be, fewer and fewer Americans will care whether the enemies of the country prevail or not. Watch too, as the US military becomes as staffed by foreigners as the ranks of the airport screeners are.

-archy-/-

131 posted on 11/25/2002 5:33:23 PM PST by archy
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