The more things change, the more they stay the same...

[Tonington]

Some people, not I, say freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. I guess one really understands what freedom is after an era like the red scare and McCarthyism.

I didn't witness that, but I am living through another age of creeping limited freedoms, though I think it's a pull and push from both ends on that spectrum.

 

[Cliffy]

Some people, not I, say freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. I guess one really understands what freedom is after an era like the red scare and McCarthyism.

I didn't witness that, but I am living through another age of creeping limited freedoms, though I think it's a pull and push from both ends on that spectrum.

The news is deigned to terrify the general population so that they will beg for more restrictions on their freedoms in the false assumption that they will be safer. It is an extremely poor trade off as in the end we will have a police state with no freedoms. But that is what people want, or more correctly, that is what they have been brainwashed into thinking they want. That is why Beck and the other right wing lunatics are so popular with the paranoid crowd.