People will trade liberty for security. Look at Bush's popularity. Sure they know he is robbing the country and eroding what little democracy they have. But he talks tough, and that's all that matters.
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...You've been under attack for days, there's a soldier down, he's wounded, gangrene's setting in, 'Who's used all the penicillin?' 'Oh, Mark Paxson sir, he's got knob rot off of some tart.'" - Gareth Keenan
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