Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

Bottom line is to look at the history of civilised countries. Human beings do not tolerate discomfort for longer than it takes to affect them in their living rooms.
I'm sure that the communist witch hunts would have continued unabated; but, when Hollywood was affected, the people reacted. Directors and actors and ancillary players couldn't make movies. The people finally bitched.

You cannot keep a country perpetually on terror alert. Their psyche simply cannot take it for extended periods of time.

Let's face it.

We wanted to drink tea. Freely and in our own time without the tyranny of another government dictating the rules.

Now, we drink tea.

We'll suffer for a few more years, I believe, and then the spoiled Americans will throw it off, just as we've always done when it affects us. At the moment, it doesn't. But, when the minister who preaches on Sunday can't join his favourite site on Monday, there will be a lessening.

Even the Soviet Union had to get a sense of humour after hundreds and hundreds of years. Now, they have crime and the black market runs the country and captialism is taking its fragile hold.

This is not based on fact, just whimsical opinion. No comments necessary.