Reply #7: Don't know.

[Mythsaje]

If one argues that regaining a true sense of freedom in this country is going to be an uphill battle, I'm the first one to agree. But simply throwing up your hands and saying "we've already lost the battle" makes the whole damn thing pretty futile.

People were astoundingly silent as the War On Drugs was escalated to the point that they were stripping away Constitutional protections left and right. That, in my opinion, was a test run for what we're seeing now. They wanted to see if people would complain. Far too few people DID. They've played with public opinion, manipulating it to suit their own ends, and everyone just went along for the ride. Not just on the WOD, but in so many different areas as well. Pass a law? Sure. Why not? Change the way things work? Hell, okay.

We've been under the threat of tyranny for DECADES. And I've been fighting that threat since I became an adult under Ronny Rayguns. I don't see how recent developments significantly change that. We're on a very dark road and the slow, plodding shadow falling over us is as dangerous as any sudden shift to tyrannical rule could ever be.