"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it".

[kallend 2,175]

This is a good place to start reading on what happened in the past when the checks and balances of government are bypassed .

web.archive.org/web/20030621235432/www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[rushmc 23]

FBI files and IRS abuses come to mind........

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln