if you believe the tv and your schools we live in a democratic paradise but if you look a bit closer you learn that we're no different in substance than those we invade to bring them 'our' democracy;

When discussing government overreach, which incidentally continues unimpeded, or the danger of the monopoly of force concentrated in the hands of government in the way of law enforcement, especially from federal police and particularly the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), I’m frequently told that if one has done nothing wrong there is nothing to fear from government. And when I describe my first-hand experience in Cuba, or relate events from my studies of communism in the former USSR, China, Cambodia, Venezuela, and the Eastern European satellite states, I’m told, “But Dr. Faria, such cruelty and tyranny can happen in third-world countries, but it cannot happen here. This is America.”

I respond, “Really? Have you heard, or rather read, of the story of David Koresh and the Waco, Texas, massacre of innocents by the ATF and the FBI?” I say read, because almost all of the victims — men, women and children, and Koresh himself — are dead at the hands of the federal police. One only has to look at this issue a bit more closely to ascertain the deadly implications of just such a naive attitude..........read more...........