Unfortunately you cannot compare the last 87 years to the last 87 days. We are living in a new era. Luckily there have been people that have fought to keep the last 87 years in check by maintaining government accountability and transparency and by holding the central government feet to the fire and reminding them they work for us and not the other way around. This isn't accomplished by wishful thinking and hope and prayers but by making noise, pushing the issues, advocating and sometimes even doing activist things. The day we stop believing the government is coming for us....well, that already happened somewhat and now you see. 350 million citizens and 8 billion people all afraid of 1 guy; paralyzed.
No disrespect but in the last 87 years have you ever seen a time when your own government can send a citizen a letter in the mail and tell them to pack their bags and leave the country and don't come back else we will send you to a Somalian prison where it is impossible for you get any due process? And then for the citizen to be so afraid that he would tuck and tail and leave his family, his home, and everything he ever worked for and run and not look back? I know we all hope this will end shortly before it hits close to home because nothing last forever but that's not a strategy.
For this forum, gone are the day where anyone can claim nothing is going to happen with drones until there is an act of Congress or Congress didn't intend for it this way....sadly, those days are behind us; forever. All it takes is one incident. Believe it or not, there are more of us than there have ever been because we believe, no one is free until everyone is free.
No disrespect but in the last 87 years have you ever seen a time when your own government can send a citizen a letter in the mail and tell them to pack their bags and leave the country and don't come back else we will send you to a Somalian prison where it is impossible for you get any due process? And then for the citizen to be so afraid that he would tuck and tail and leave his family, his home, and everything he ever worked for and run and not look back? I know we all hope this will end shortly before it hits close to home because nothing last forever but that's not a strategy.
For this forum, gone are the day where anyone can claim nothing is going to happen with drones until there is an act of Congress or Congress didn't intend for it this way....sadly, those days are behind us; forever. All it takes is one incident. Believe it or not, there are more of us than there have ever been because we believe, no one is free until everyone is free.
