The cell phone database didn’t even make the list

First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

A website called AlterNet has published a list of the Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State.

Is the threat to American freedom from within greater than it is from without?

It’s not unthinkable. It has happened before. It can happen again.

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