Informant38

It seems almost silly to point out that if the government of King George's England in 1776 had had the powers and technologies available to the Bush Administration - the Patriot Act, the NSA, FBI, CIA, God-knows-who-and/or-what and it's important to keep in mind that those powers and technologies are going to be available to everyone who comes after the benighted George W. - there would never have been an American Revolution, and there never would have been an America. As we know it, as it is.
Is that a good thing, or is that a bad thing?
Depends on who you talk to, these days.