Intersting documentary

[BrAinPaiNt]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/

Some will say it is bias and that is their right but I think anyone that wants to keep their rights in place should view them.

IMO it shows the lengths government will go in order to gain power at the cost of your rights.

It may be with the current administration but even if another administration and/or party gets in office I doubt the would be so quick to let it go.

Power is something many can not let go.

So the documentary is broken down into different clips and if you get the time you should check them out.

[BigDPlayer]

This is an interesting thread. While in college, I read an interesting book called 'Crisis and Leviathan' by Robert Higgs. A very interesting read detailing a theory on how government grows in power. It speaks of the processes and events by which government slowly erodes civil liberties and moves towards greater and greater power.

Basically, the author illustrates, through examples of how twentieth century national emergencies have prompted federal officials to take over previously private rights and activities. When the crisis passed, a residue of new governmental powers remained.

Even more significantly, each great crisis and the gov. responses to it resulted in idealogical change on how we look at the role of gov. and powers.

Sound familiar? The Patriot Act being a recent, and perhaps the most glaring, example of exactly how far a frightened and vulnerable public can be taken advantage of.

Ask yourself this, do you think without a 9/11-type occurence, the American public (and federal government officials) would have possibly allowed the passage of a law that gives carte-blanche access to the government to spy on its own people, on its own shores?

An interesting read.

[trickblue]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/

Some will say it is bias and that is their right but I think anyone that wants to keep their rights in place should view them.

IMO it shows the lengths government will go in order to gain power at the cost of your rights.

It may be with the current administration but even if another administration and/or party gets in office I doubt the would be so quick to let it go.

Power is something many can not let go.

So the documentary is broken down into different clips and if you get the time you should check them out.

Tragically our government has been on the fast-track to obtain more power since the FDR administration...

Early on it was trusting constituents who turned a blind eye and kept voting the same people in election after election. Now it's partisans who have taken over that job. They know what's going on, but they don't care...

[BrAinPaiNt]

Tragically our government has been on the fast-track to obtain more power since the FDR administration...

Early on it was trusting constituents who turned a blind eye and kept voting the same people in election after election. Now it's partisans who have taken over that job. They know what's going on, but they don't care...

Yep. It did not start with the current admin and it will not end with the current admin.

I think the Rico act has been around for some time and to me that goes against due process in some areas.

[burmafrd]

Look at the Democrats right now trying to bring back the Fairness Doctrine ( a more misnamed so called regulation its hard to imagine) only because they want to destroy talk radio which is dominated by conservative views. Air America failed pitifully and now the Liberals want to silence the one real opposition voice in the media today.

[Yeagermeister]

Look at the Democrats right now trying to bring back the Fairness Doctrine ( a more misnamed so called regulation its hard to imagine) only because they want to destroy talk radio which is dominated by conservative views. Air America failed pitifully and now the Liberals want to silence the one real opposition voice in the media today.

In their eyes fairness is when they are the only voice heard.