I hate to rain on people's parade but....

[Fumesucker]

92. What makes you believe I think the ends justify the means?

Maybe what *you* think what needs to be done is a pipe dream, maybe *you* are limiting my options, maybe *you* are the absolutist. Why is it that you are totally correct and I'm totally wrong?

You keep telling me what I think and from what I can grok of your writing you have interpreted my words completely opposite of what I actually think and try hard to convey in as clear and concise manner as I can.

Can you point to an example of a national security state that was rolled back without a major serious societal upheaval because I certainly can't think of one and this is a subject I've spent a lot of time contemplating.

We are headed toward a Brave New World indeed, technology is creating new and ever more subtle ways to spy on people, our every form of communication beyond face to face conversation and possibly the mail is constantly monitored and recorded. Our private prisons demand more prisoners for the profits, the prison guard union is the most powerful lobbying group in California and they *always* push for more and stricter sentences, again for their financial benefit.

Good grief, you live in a nation that has private, for profit prisons, that's absolutely unconscionable in a supposedly free society since it creates even more of a profit center than already naturally exists around crime and criminal "justice".

I'll just point out that I tried to compliment you and you tried to insult me in return, grow the fuck up yourself.

The most abject slave is the slave that does not even realize he is a slave.