Tools of Tyranny . . . .

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And when the government fights wars, it persuades us that the wars are being fought to keep us safe and, therefore, it needs more tax dollars, and we are entitled to less freedom. So we look the other way while the government extracts more money from us and takes freedom away from us. And then when the war is over, bingo, the money doesn't come back and the freedom doesn't come back.

Only in America can the government boast about prosecuting someone that it talked into breaking the law, and did so in such a sterile environment that would have been against the laws of physics for the person to have succeeded in breaking the law. So essentially, they find some idiot. They plant an evil thought into his brain, and then prosecute him for committing a thought crime. Because, as I said, they do it in a control environment in which he couldn't possibly do what they think he thinks he's about to do. This doesn't keep anybody safe. All it does is waste money, put idiots in jail. And it's actually counterproductive because it creates the false illusion that the government is keeping us safe.
-Andrew Napalitano

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