“The question is: how much farther must we travel down this road before people will be compelled to admit that ‘the land of the free’ is more a reassuring myth than a description of the land in which we actually live—to recognize that the freedoms to go shopping and browse the Web are not enough to make a society genuinely free?”
http://blog.independent.org/2013/02/04/the-relentless-march-of-the-u-s-police-state/
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