ConcernedForFuture's Blog

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
- Cicero, 42 B.C.

I don't think I need to say anything more, just think. Okay, here is a hint:

"We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation."
- George W. Bush

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator"
- George W. Bush

"There ought to be limits to freedom"
- George W. Bush

"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within."
- President James Madison

"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people."
- Richard Perle

If you don't think there's anything you can do about it:

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
-Thomas Jefferson, American Declaration of Independence

We are the people, we do have power, we only have to exercise it:

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural

And if for SOME reason, you don't see the problems:

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Or if you think it would be unpatriotic:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
– Teddy Roosevelt

If you do nothing:

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The patriot act is an abomination. Keep giving up your freedoms for security:

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. "
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President and 5-Star General

Just remember, the ways we are manipulated are not new things, Hitler and Stalin both knew these methods long ago:

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
- Adolf Hitler

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened".
- Josef Stalin

Why do I just quote these larger than life people? The truths they say are truths,because they are the general principals this country was founded on. They are not perfect for sure, but their ideas are in the past, to warn us in the future.