| | I agree, Steve.
It's almost comical how these tyrant-wannabee's telegraph what they are "up to" before the fact, or how they "out" themselves after the fact.
While interjecting poetic license, I'm thinking of statements very similar to these:
"It had nothing whatsoever to do with our foreign policy over there. You've got to believe me. Really, you do. I mean, it was just about a simple, disgusting video -- and that is all that it was about. A video; and not our foreign policy. Do I need to say it 3 times in order for it to sink in?"
...or ...
"We will not ever spy on ordinary citizens who are not specifically suspected of a documented crime, because that violates civil rights and liberties. And government -- at least government in the United States of America -- was not created for the purpose of violating civil rights and liberties. Such spying is not just un-American, it is anti-American. You don't make us more secure by violating our rights. There is no shortcut to American security."
... or ...
"We will not ever be able to see or understand what it is that is in the bill; unless we pass it first. It is imperative that we pass the thing. Otherwise, we will never discover what was in it, and that will gnaw at us until the we are in the grave (and nobody wishes that sort of life-long anguish on themselves). It is better to take the risk of passing it, than to experience the terrible certainty of life-long mystery. A mere threat of harm is better than a promise of harm."
:-)
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 6/09, 6:33am)
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The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power, we are resisting the powers of death because the concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberty.
