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| User: | sos_usa (633820) |
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| Name: | the erosion of American Civil Liberties | |
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| About: | This community is for the discussion of the steady reduction of American privacy and civil liberties, which has become markedly more pronounced following the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001. For an overview of some of these abridgments, click HERE. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."- John Philpot Curran "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." -George Santayana, The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress 82 "Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed." -Bruce Springsteen, "War," Live 1975-85 "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." -attributed to Julius Caesar Current US terrorism threat level from the Department of Homeland Security:This community was founded and is maintained by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} metaphorge. If you have any concerns or suggestions regarding this community or any posts in it, please drop him an email.Remember: debate the idea, not attack the person. Discussion cannot take place without civility. Ad hominem attacks will not be tolerated. Please do not post topics in this community with comments disabled. Any such post will be deleted. Also, please do not suggest that someone be attacked in their personal journal for the opinions they express here. Please do not delete any comments that you yourself did not post. If you have a problem with someone being abusive, spamming, or posting things that are completely off topic in your post, please contact a moderator and we'll deal with it. Please place long ammounts of text behind an lj-cut. (This does not mean that all posts should be cut, simply that anything over a couple of paragraphs should be.) If you don't know how to do this, check this faq page. Also, please be courteous. Moderation here is very laissez faire; don't take advantage of this. | |
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