I wish I had paid closer attention to the story, but there was a man who on a transfer in NY from Canada to England was pulled asside for “additional security screening” disappeard. His wife and two children were told nothing. For nine months he was detained in 3 or 4 different places in three different countries. All because of someone he knew in college.

As far as the dismantling of our constitutional freedoms…note my lower case c. Let’s never forget that the constitution was NEVER intended to protect the public-at-large. We’re just witnessing a return to roots, so to speak. You’re welcome to do anything you want as long as you’re rich. Including taking advantage of the shrinking middle class.

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Everybody’s upset that rich people raided retirement funds of the working class to give themselves obscene salaries and fat bonuses. Just what the #$%@ do you think happened to Social Security?!? They got the idea from the government. They’ve been doing it and getting away with it for years.
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What was I talking about? I forget.

Oh! constitutional freedoms. It’s a great piece of paper that was part of our final exam, which I believe you missed, (no joke I think you were out with a migrane) beyond that not much else.

As far as disappearing for what we talk about, who knows? I’m no conspiracy nut…just your garden variety nut, but the kind of person to be disappered isn’t the kind of person to attract much attention if [read: when] it happens. Who knows, maybe they’re getting the right people…for now. As much as we might mock them, they’re actually quite good at what they do, it’s just that when they screw up, they screw up BIG.

Rant over…coffee now!