The worst mistake that the American people have made in the entire history of the United States was to permit the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state.
The government couldn't kill anyone or deprive anyone of liberty or property without "Due process of law," a term that stretched back to Magna Carta in 1215, when the barons of England forced their king to acknowledge that his powers over them were limited.
Our American ancestors had brought into existence a limited-government republic, a type of political system in which the government was delegated very few powers and then expressly forbidden by the Bill of Rights to exercise totalitarian-like powers.
In order to prevent a communist takeover of the United States, it would be necessary to convert the federal government to the same type of governmental system the Soviet Union had. The implication, of course, was that as soon as the United States won the Cold War, Americans could have their limited-government republic back.
The 9/11 attacks gave the federal government what our American ancestors had feared when the Constitution was being proposed to them - a government consisting of a massive, ever-growing military-intelligence establishment with omnipotent, totalitarian powers to keep the nation "Safe" from the terrorist blowback that U.S. officials had produced with their interventionism.
That's how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to take them into custody and throw them indefinitely into a military dungeon and torture them to any extent whatsoever.
It is how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to conduct secret surveillance on them, just like government officials do in China, North Korea, and Cuba.
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/a-limited-government-republic-versus-a-national-security-state/
The government couldn't kill anyone or deprive anyone of liberty or property without "Due process of law," a term that stretched back to Magna Carta in 1215, when the barons of England forced their king to acknowledge that his powers over them were limited.
Our American ancestors had brought into existence a limited-government republic, a type of political system in which the government was delegated very few powers and then expressly forbidden by the Bill of Rights to exercise totalitarian-like powers.
In order to prevent a communist takeover of the United States, it would be necessary to convert the federal government to the same type of governmental system the Soviet Union had. The implication, of course, was that as soon as the United States won the Cold War, Americans could have their limited-government republic back.
The 9/11 attacks gave the federal government what our American ancestors had feared when the Constitution was being proposed to them - a government consisting of a massive, ever-growing military-intelligence establishment with omnipotent, totalitarian powers to keep the nation "Safe" from the terrorist blowback that U.S. officials had produced with their interventionism.
That's how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to take them into custody and throw them indefinitely into a military dungeon and torture them to any extent whatsoever.
It is how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to conduct secret surveillance on them, just like government officials do in China, North Korea, and Cuba.
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/a-limited-government-republic-versus-a-national-security-state/
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