San Jose Mercury News
by Victor Davis Hanson
May 23, 2013

Government is now so huge, powerful, and callous that citizens risk becoming virtual serfs, lacking the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers.

Is that perennial fear an exaggeration? Survey the current news.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23...t-not-detaining

this is too disgusting!

spys on those who investigate the unfavorable and then releases select classified on the favorable.

you've done it now. i now WANT to go to work.

thanks Palinista.

Thanks for posting

Zitat

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Conspiracists, left and right, are sometimes understandably derided as paranoids for alleging that Big Government steadily absorbs the private sector, violates private communications, targets tax filers it doesn't like, and lies to the people about what it is up to. The only missing theme of such classic paranoia is the perennial worry over the right to bear arms.

I went to several sporting-goods stores recently to buy commonplace rifle shells. For the first time in my life, there were none to be found. Can widespread shortages of ammunition be attributed to panic buying or to production shortfalls caused by inexplicably massive purchases by the Department of Homeland Security at a time of acrimonious debate over the Second Amendment?

Who knows, but yesterday's wacky conspiracist may become today's Nostradamus.

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Quote: Palinista wrote in post #1

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San Jose Mercury News
by Victor Davis Hanson
May 23, 2013

Government is now so huge, powerful, and callous that citizens risk becoming virtual serfs, lacking the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers.

Is that perennial fear an exaggeration? Survey the current news.

(excerpted)
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23...t-not-detaining

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Thanks for posting, VDH never disappoints!