We used to sanction treating people as property. We don't now. It took a hell of a lot of violence to make that happen. We used to sanction discriminatio

We used to sanction treating people as property. We don't now. It took a hell of a lot of violence to make that happen. We used to sanction discrimination. We don't now. The water cannon, FBI raids, Klan intimidation, police dogs, and assassinations of civil rights leaders don't count as violence? We used to draft people into the military. We don't now. We stopped after thousands of disaffected youths much like the ones you're deriding right now stood up, burned their draft cards, and took a stand. We voted a bunch of folks who were trouncing on the Constitution out of office. The process takes time, the time is built into the system to prevent wild oscillations. We voted a bunch of folks who were trouncing the Constitution out of office and replaced them with people who've continued treating the founding document of the United States of America as toilet paper. Name one way that Obama's policies have differed from Bush in the field of civil liberties or due process. In every case, from the closing of Guantanamo to the continuation of warrantless wiretaps and national security letters, the incoming Obama administration dovetailed perfectly with the outgoing Bush administration. Obama has talked a good game, but has done absolutely nothing, even when opportunities to stand up for citizens' rights were presented to him on a silver platter. At least in the US, the government's "power" springs very directly from the people, its not up to the Government to 'give it up' or not. When the government can manipulate its power base as easily as our government is doing right now, the check of the people's will just another loophole to be exploited.