Some would argue that you must be a criminal. Only criminals and terrorists have to fear our police. Our police are good people a lot are conservative -- but we've also seen report after report that they execute their orders -- and sometimes that involves taking away our freedoms.
I am not interested in what 'some' say. I am only interested in Morality and Truth.
I would rather lose a skyscraper a week than to lose the Republic... or the vestiges of it.
I'd point something else out. When we go, the world goes.
The world economy is based on our stability. On our freedom. On our capitalist society.
Convert that to fascism, and I for one... will quit. I will not produce again. Friction will wear down the rest of it, and you'll have a new Dark Age on your hands. Only this time... the Kings will have nukes.
I think you're playing devil's advocate. But let's be clear what civilization rests on.... it rests on freedom.