To: Iowa David
Drug War fever shredded much of the Constitution. It was all ok because they were just doing it to “those” people. The expansion into just about every other area of law enforcement led to an outcry...much too late. Americans seem to be unable to recognize a slippery slope.
9 posted on
04/04/2016 11:10:23 AM PDT by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
‘Scope creep’....the SOP of all tyranny.
See: Income taxes, seat-belt laws, ‘gun control’, etc.
14 posted on
04/04/2016 11:18:53 AM PDT by
i_robot73
("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
To: Wolfie
When the first seizure laws gained popularity in 1992, I shrieked about it to anyone who would listen.
No one listened.
18 posted on
04/04/2016 11:22:03 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
To: Wolfie
Americans seem to be unable to recognize a slippery slope.Well, until they are looking backward up the darned thing, anyway.
25 posted on
04/04/2016 11:28:36 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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