The world is too dangerous - right?

- Our economy is declining.
- AIDS, Malaria, and other pandemics abound.
- The climate is changing in ways that threaten our way of life.
- We are facing nuclear proliferation and WMD's falling into the hands of our enemies.
- And worst of all, terrorists are everywhere - ready to attack any moment we let our guard down.

Thankfully, we have a government that is standing strong and defending us against all of these pending disasters, especially against terrorism from abroad. And hey, even if the executive branch is overstepping its powers, even if our legislative branch is passing laws that limit our civil liberties, even if the judicial branch is upholding these unconstitutional laws - that's okay, because the world is too dangerous - right?

Wrong.

Do we really think the world is any more dangerous than it has been before? Is our country really facing more threats than we have in the past? It is an insult to those who have come before us to even think such as thing.

We have survived the Depression.
We have conquered Small Pox and Polio with vaccines.
We defended our newly formed country against the British army.
We have fought and won two world wars at the same time.
We have even faced a nuclear war before.

And through all of it, we have retained our civil liberties. Never have we given our own government the right to tap our telephones or go through our credit card bills or our library records.

It is unacceptable and it needs to stop. NOW.