Beware of the day when government has taken so much that revolutionaries have less to lose than to gain.
Every election is an advance auction of to be stolen goods.
The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
All bureaucracies at all times and everywhere assume that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact.
See the rest at Inconvenient Thoughts of Uncle Al.