
“Personally, I look at the Americans and I see a people who have been very effectively brainwashed, or who simply have given in to the entirely human tendency to shuffle unquestioningly onto the path of least resistance and let themselves go. I see a people who, on a wholesale basis, have consciously or unconsciously decided to trade the idea of America for the false security of a totalitarian state. Skeptical? Then ask yourself what percentage of the audience would raise their hands in favor if asked the following.”
http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/paying-lip-service-liberty
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