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The Impulse To Make Ourselves Safer By Making Ourselves Less Free Is An Old One ... When We Are Badly Frightened, We Think We Can Make Ourselves Safer By Sacrificing Some Of Our Liberties. We Did It During The Mccarthy Era Out Of Fear Of Communism. Less Liberty Is Regularly Proposed As A Solution To Crime, To Pornography, To Illegal Immigration, To Abortion, To All Kinds Of Threats.

If You Ever Get To The Place Where Injustice Doesn't Bother You, You're Dead.

What Stuns Me Most About Contemporary Politics Is Not Even That The System Has Been So Badly Corrupted By Money. It Is That So Few People Get The Connection Between Their Lives And What The Bozos Do In Washington And Our State Capitols.

Being Slightly Paranoid Is Like Being Slightly Pregnant - It Tends To Get Worse.

Listen To The People Who Are Talking About How To Fix What's Wrong, Not The Ones Who Just Work People Into A Snit Over The Problems. Listen To The People Who Have Ideas About How To Fix Things, Not The Ones Who Just Blame Others.