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Originally Posted by brent281

you are kidding me right, are you talking about the USA? overthrowing of government? you do know we elect government officials? also, i can imagine this civil war you talk about, cell phone users around the united states will band together to take on law enforcement, firing muskets at each other until one surrenders.

I'm not sure if you read my whole post or just pulled out the section you liked. It was rather long so I can understand the reluctance to read and digest it all...

I'm not talking about cell phone users specifically. I'm talking about the government and their new look at the populus as their primary enemy alongside the removal of almost every right afforded to us in the Bill of Rights. This can only go on for so long...

As the famous poem goes...

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

Right now we're told to give up all these rights to fight terrorists. It is only a matter of time before this immense amount of information they are gathering and accessing on us without due process get pushed into other areas. As it has continued to do so.

There has to come a correction point. Either we accept it and the government turns into some form of government where we don't have the freedoms we used to or the people will end up revolting until we get them back.

As Thomas Jefferson so famously said... People are wiling to suffer greatly under a government because people don't like to rise up and change them often, but the injustices can only continue for so long before they do so.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declara...d_States)#Text

It is important for our country to remember why we were founded in the first place. We came into being by the government of Great Britan continuing to usurpe the power of the people.

I'm not saying the correction is coming today or even in the next decade. I'm not fortune teller. I'm just acknoqledging the path we're on.