Scared Yet?

- Domestic spying without warrants, even though FISA allows for 72 hours of spying before a warrant is issued.
- Funding cuts for medicare, medicaid, student loans and early childhood education coupled with tax cuts for capital gains and on the top marginal rate
- A war justified on the threat of WMDs but the inability to find any
- Secret prisons in Europe where we sent people for interrogation
- An indictment brought against Padilla after 3 years, just as the case is headed to the Supreme Court for review, but absent of the sensational charges leveled when he was arrested.
- No bid contracts for Haliburton in Iraq

In the words of Ben Franklin

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "

Worst part is we aren't giving it up it's being stolen and for reasons that escape comprehension we're allowing it to happen and asking for more.