Those who do not learn from history...

[Coexist]

A quote for you:

"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."

William Proxmire - the Democrat elected in a special election on August 28, 1957, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph R. McCarthy, the creator of the Golden Fleece award.

[izzie]

1. I guess these people think it will not be the same.

I am sure Hitler knew what happened to the Fr. but he still went in to Russia, just one thing some one did not learn. One does have to wonder when they keep doing the same thing when it did not work and doing It over and over.

[smitty]

2. Proxmire was a Senator from my home state of Wisconsin.

Unfortunately he passed away last December, aged 90. I met him once in Milwaukee, a short, slender man with a wry sense of humor.