"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Counterterrorism and the Totalitarian Temptation
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2014-01-09 03:00
Why officials charged with eliminating the threat will always go too far.
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