"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
Uncle Sam’s Greatest Hits: Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You
"Americans are just now beginning to learn how it feels to be on the receiving end of such policies. While their government has long claimed the authority to detain Americans indefinitely without due process...only recently has it publicly argued that the president has the authority to order the assassination of American citizens anywhere in the world. Under George W. Bush such assassinations were carried out with a fair amount of secrecy, but under Barack Obama they are carried out openly, and his administration quite candidly admits that it is doing so."
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