In the name of national security and of protecting us from the mad men of our times they spur the Congress to pass laws that strip away citizen’s rights to privacy and civil liberty.
The phrase ‘Don’t tread on me!’ expresses the attitude of a mentally healthy public that understands that all governments, given the chance, will try to reduce the ability of the people to remove them from power. They do this by brute force, as in the Iraq of Saddam Hussein or, a nibble at a time, as now in the U.S., until they have sufficient powers to tread on us all.
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