Can I make a statement about national defense? The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America towards a fascist theocracy. -- Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa said those words back in 1986, on a tv debate program called Crossfire. He was an American hero, and his death was a genuine loss to those who oppose government restriction of our freedoms.

John Lofton (who called Frank Zappa an "idiot" in the video below) is also dead. No great loss there.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Blackwolf on March 24, 2017 at 9:59pm

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

Pierre - Joseph Proudon