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This is an excellent comment, and you are correct that we forget too quickly the abuses of the past. Like Socrates' Apology. I am reminded of the post a while

This is an excellent comment, and you are correct that we forget too quickly the abuses of the past. Like Socrates' Apology. I am reminded of the post a while ago regarding a man whose family was hounded out of their home at gunpoint by the Feds, and their lives systematically destroyed until he was forced to move out of the country, because one of the companies buying hosting from the host he had founded was found doing fraudulent business. If we're lucky, we'll die before the countries we love turn to tyranny. Will our children? Will our grandchildren?

kls 17y ago
>If we're lucky, we'll die before the countries we love turn to tyranny. Will our children? Will our grandchildren? I understand the sentiment, but when I look into the face of my son. I hope every day that if it should ever come to armed resistance that it comes to pass in my time and not his. I am a pacifist above all else, but I would rather have the moral obligation and the wages of war payed by my hand rather than that of my namesake. He did not create this mess and it weighs on my mind that this is the legacy that I will leave him. We should all be ashamed of the legacy we are leaving to our children and if our legacy to them is tyranny, oppression and struggle then may we all be damned.