Reply #4: We the people have nothing to fear but fear itself...

[HereSince1628]

that is particularly true when it is the lawmakers who are frightened by the people.

None of us who lived the violent response of local, state and federal governments to the civil rights movement and antiwar movement in the 1960's and early 70's would have any doubt that 'The Government' will preserve the status quo by doing whatever is required.

That in lawmakers fear of al Qaeda and other unknown dangers feared to be lurking in the dark corners of society they find a proximate motivation for erecting laws that obstruct the fundamental obligation of people to organize to overthrow unresponsive governments attempting to subjugate the people should be no surprise.

It matters not, even if that obligation of free people is the cornerstone of our nationhood and the license of the subjugated to seek freedom, because earnestly seeking to maintain liberty seems to the paranoid to be just so much 18th century hysteria.

Our lawmakers have more contemporary and thereby higher priority problems to deal with.