Price of liberty is vigilance. Those willing to trade freedom for the illusion of security will end up neither free nor secure. Patriots, be warned--America is rapidly becoming a garrison state
“A government big-enough to give you everything you want, is big-enough to take everything that you have.” -- President Gerald Ford, Address to Joint Session of Congress, 12 August 1974
By tradition, Americans are accustomed to referring to themselves as free citizens of a constitutional republic, and not subjects of an all-powerful ruler or state. Today, however, evidence continues to mount that we are no longer a free people and no longer live in a constitutional republic. The increasing size and scope of government at all levels has been a fact of life in the United States for quite some time, but in recent years – especially since the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks – that growth has accelerated dramatically. Under the Obama regime, it has gone exponential.
