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In reply to the discussion: I am getting the odd sense that some don't like Snowden because he made the establishment look bad [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I don't know of any abuse therapists for that though. We cannot make them do anything. We can't reason with them to do anything different either. We could try to vote in different ones next time around, but the new ones would inherit a system that seems set in stone. They either adjust and adapt to it or don't get anything done. So their hands will be tied from the get-go anyhow.
I'm not quite sure what we can do to curtail the overly domineering rules we live under right now. I saw a real sign (in a post on DU) that said NO Fireworks for the 4th of July the other day. No pets. No coolers for something cool to drink to cool off. No nothing. Just sit there and sweat and be ready to be searched at any given moment. I don't think this is freedom any more. I seriously do not.
Even other than the obvious reasons (the loss of life), I wish 9/11 had never happened. How long after Pearl Harbor was bombed was the country in disarray and quite this bad as far as "for your own safety" special laws and rules go? Will the post 9/11 paranoia by TPTB ever settle down?
Good grief. Bin Laden is dead. What is the excuse for the paranoia now?