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by tastyfreeze 871 days ago
Or simply having the audacity to travel on an airplane.

> There's no such thing as "rights" - only what individuals can defend in the current place and time they're in.

I suppose that is the way it always has been. When the government was small people just didn't care what they were up to. The people became complacent and allowed a beast to grow. If the rights we are supposed to have keep getting trampled on revolution is inevitable. It may take a long hellish time to happen but that is one fork in the path we are on.