“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.”
– Col. Nathan R. Jessup (A Few Good Men)
With NBC News releasing the 16-page U.S. Department of Justice (White Paper) memo that “concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be ‘senior operational leaders’ of al-Qaida or ‘an associated force’ — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.,” I think it’s time we all stepped back and started thinking seriously about building that underground bunker because that “buzz” you’re hearing may be a drone monitoring you and not a pesky mosquito.
And many people thought the Bush Administration had taken away our rights with things like the Patriot Act and REAL ID, and with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security that has that pesky agency called the TSA!
In the next few years, we may yearn for the freedoms we enjoyed during the Bush Administration…