What does "selective suspension" of any freedom mean to you?

[matmar]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/26

[hobbit709]

1. Means that freedom is now gone.

[Javaman]

2. fascism. nt

[gratuitous]

3. Dictatorship

This sentence jumped out at me: "It is in conference rooms like this one, where attorneys speak in the arcane and formal language of legal statutes, that we lose or save our civil liberties."

And here I've been told incessantly over the last 30 years or more that it's our military that keeps our freedoms safe. So, when do the troops arrive to save us? They'll arrive to defend our freedoms and liberty, right?

Huh, kinda cold out for crickets.

[KG]

4. rec.

[Tejas]

5. guns for thee, but not me.

[CrispyQ]

6. We're fucked.

Totalitarian systems always begin by rewriting the law. They make legal what was once illegal. Crimes become patriotic acts. The defense of freedom and truth becomes a crime. Foreign and domestic subjugation merges into the same brutal mechanism. Citizens are colonized. And it is always done in the name of national security. We obey the new laws as we obeyed the old laws, as if there was no difference. And we spend our energy and our lives appealing to a dead system.

[gratuitous]

8. Maybe we just can't handle our freedom anymore

And our wise and benevolent government overlords will protect us from irresponsible use of civil liberties?

[raouldukelives]

7. Some animals are more equal than others. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. The same as when Daddy breaks out the belt and says "I'm doing this for your own good."