Wednesday June 11, 2025; 11:56 AM EDT
- I think that a big problem with what is going on in the United States is that for too many citizens they think that what is happening is not going to affect them. Every part of our society is selfish. Only until something affects me will I have a problem with it. So, if as an opponent to the current Republican regime I had a large enough audience on TV or in writing, I would ask people to remember the after math of 9/11 and in particular the creation of the TSA. Do you want more "TSA" everywhere in the country? Remember that up until 9/11 there were not federal officers in every airport making you take off your shoes and go through metal detectors. Before 9/11 you had the freedom to walk directly go to a gate to see your friends and family even if you didn't have a plane ticket! What the current Republican regime is doing is expanding federal officer presence, like the TSA, to more locations through out the country. These people will be armed and wear military gear. More surveillance and less liberty for of all of us under the disguise of catching "illegals." #
- Since 9/11 we have become too accepting of these increases in the federal law enforcement and presence in our lives and too accepting of infringements on liberty even to the point where people might even think liberty is not important. The founders of the United States feared a large standing army because of what the Republican regime is now doing. The southern states demanded the second amendment, the right to bear arms, because they feared a president federalizing state militias, the very thing that Trump has done in California. The regime has convince too many citizens to not be awake to what they are doing. Don't be woke they say as they methodically increase the police state, put armed "officers/troops" on every street in the country and take away your first amendment right to protest. #