01-26-2012, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
In order for governments to take more and more power from the people, and keep it long term, rights and liberties must be taken away gradually. No big sudden crackdown, except during "emergencies". You will just get used to small new things and not feel the next small step, and the next, and the next, and the next. By the time you are 90 and you look around and realize what is really going on, it will be too late, and the younger people, who will have grown up with this stuff, will just call you a crazy old man, and say that everything is fine.
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That's what Joseph McCarthy said. That's been the republican mantra for over 80 years now, since the Great Depression.
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