"Oh, don't worry about that new income tax. It tops out at 5% and only applies to multi-millionaires."

"No, of course we won't ever use your Social Security number for identification."

"Instead of going after the perpetrators of 9/11 with Letters of Marque and Reprisal as the Constitution allows, we're going to start entire new zillion-dollar wars that will wreck foreign nations, get thousands of American soldiers killed, and allow for corruption on a scale you wouldn't believe. Oh, wait. I meant we're invading Iraq and Afghanistan to PROTECT you."

"We're from the government and we're here to help."

If you believe the government will EVER stop at "reasonable" (whatever the hell THAT means) infringements of our rights, you haven't been paying attention.

Edit: let's make that "alleged" perpetrators of 9/11, since even if Ron Paul's resolution to USE Letters of Marque and Reprisal had passed, going after a bunch of Arabs hiding in caves halfway across the world wouldn't have gotten us to the actual perps.

"Oh, don't worry about that new income tax. It tops out at 5% and only applies to multi-millionaires."

"No, of course we won't ever use your Social Security number for identification."

"Instead of going after the perpetrators of 9/11 with Letters of Marque and Reprisal as the Constitution allows, we're going to start entire new zillion-dollar wars that will wreck foreign nations, get thousands of American soldiers killed, and allow for corruption on a scale you wouldn't believe. Oh, wait. I meant we're invading Iraq and Afghanistan to PROTECT you."

"We're from the government and we're here to help."

If you believe the government will EVER stop at "reasonable" (whatever the hell THAT means) infringements of our rights, you haven't been paying attention.