Do you dare to search for pressure cooker now?

I am also frightened by such opinions Proto.

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Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens. ~ Britney Spears

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I am utterly flabbergasted how many americans have similar faithful thoughts. "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear about the government secretly searching you". Ugh.The trust that americans give our representatives to make secret laws using secret courts is completely opposite to democracy. The founding fathers, albeit far from perfect, knew the temptation of absolute power and the world of tyranny, so they built into the american government as many checks and balances as possible. Yet, america has developed into being a police state. Americans, so terrified of the boogeymen that it's own government has created (it used to be the communists, then the drug sellers, and now 'terrorists'), willfully exchange their rights and liberties for SOME hopeful protection. As if there is enough money and resources to prevent ALL 'terrorist' attacks (Boston Bombing).Our representatives spend far too little money against cancer, car accidents, inner-city violence, smoking, and obesity. How many hundreds of thousands of lives lost? Reduced funding for education, health care are always acted on. But to our representatives, there's not reduced liberties or enough money in the world to deal with just 11 cases of terrorism in America since 9/11.It's BIG business for contractors to spy on america. And the secret law makers have ties with these companies. It's totally conflict of interest. They have a vested interest to enlarge the business of spying on americans. Yet most americans trust them. Ugh!The thoroughly petrified Americans dutifully go along with whatever ridiculous "safeguard" the "authorities" mandate. From no nail-clippers on aircraft to violating the search and seizure laws of the 4th Amendment.I continue to ask our representatives, if you are really concerned about terrorist attacks, why not try stopping the actions that cause them: drone assassinations that kill children, illegal military support for Israeli crimes against Palestinians, anti-democratic and dictatorial support for fanatical regimes such as Saudi Arabia.Americans give only 10-20% approval rating to our representatives, yet always vote 99% of the representatives back into office. WTF? We're truly a nation of Britney Spears (retards).

I enthusiastically agree.Unfortunately, with the american government constantly pushing the 'defcon 5 button,' the fear of most cowardly and ignorant americans is through the roof. The final result is the public cannot hand over their rights and liberties quick enough to hope the already ridiculously low risk of terrorist attack (just eleven deaths since 9/11), is even lower. Edited by dronester, : added image

Yes, but there's also real fears such as global warming or america turning into the equivalent of 1930s germany . . .But either way, I think the best cure for fear is knowledge. Unfortunately, the only problem with knowledge is that some (most?) people prefer to live with their delusions. Anyone who has spent anytime on this forum knows the futility of enlightening the faithful to scientific enlightenment.A while back Straggler made a semi-serious request for a limited set of needful books in a post-apocalyptic world. I just started reading "Howard Zinn on History." With that, I would like to make an addendum to my previous list and include these titles:* A People's History of the United States by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn* Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Paperback, by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky* What's the Matter with Kansas? by American journalist and historian Thomas Frank* The Prince (Italian: Il Principe, by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccol MachiavelliTo return this post to the topic, if more people read and understood 'What's the Matter with Kansas?' I think there would be less cowardly and more empowered americans. They would be less likely to blindly follow the governments fear tactics.

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According to the book, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from social and economic equality to the use of "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, which are used to redirect anger toward "liberal elites."

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What's the Matter with Kansas? - Wikipedia

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(Some of these books are already reading material for high schoolers. If I could, I would make them mandatory for grammar school kids. I think people should be indoctrinated early with the mindset that they should ALWAYS question the elites, people in charge, government, the 1%ers.)

Hey Oni,Thanks for the reply, we are probably nit-picking . . . Hmmm. Yeah, the word "indoctrinating" does sound sort of menacing (not to mention the catch-22 aspect).However, I meant the word only as school-administrators might use it on students: "the indoctrination of young students into mathematics or reading/writing." I think if some great literature (Huckleberry Finn, Shakespeare, Grapes of Wrath, etc. ) could me made MANDATORY reading, then why not my list? If their opinions are based on knowledge and critical thinking, yes, great! If based on fearful, superstitious, bronze-age mindsets, no.Edited by dronester, : added catch-22

Straggler,I don't think you're quite getting jar's acceptance (delirious rapture) of a hopeful global police-state. The following, such world, wouldn't displease him at all: Edited by dronester, : fixed link

No ethical, brave, or thinking person would ever want fascism . . .

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What luck for the rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler

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"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens." Britney Spears

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Mankind is doomed.