It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.