Why do we tolerate the TSA? The DHS? The "patriot act"?

[kenny blankenship]

5. They promise us only the bad people will lose their freedom

that's how it goes in any police state. The "bad people" alone will be punished and the "good people" stand to be rewarded - the two handed seduction of evil. Those bad people - they've been asking for it for a long time. They deserve everything bad that happens to them, and more. With them out of the way, the rest of us are going to finally start getting ahead and it's all going to be coming up roses. When the majority wake up to the fact that they live under a tyranny, it's too late. All the way to the bottom, the authorities claim they must have greater and greater latitude to act in order to keep people safe, as well as the ability to designate and judge offenders in secrecy. In the name of fighting disorder, crime and subversion, they create the environment in which the "police" can commit crimes themselves with total impunity. The opportunity is never missed. Any resistance is crushed and used as justification for further destruction of freedom and civil liberties. Any organized resistance to abuses is portrayed as the visible peak of an underground diabolical plot to overthrow the state and deliver the nation into the hands of foreign enemies.