“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human...

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by...

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” James Madison It’s no joke: America is becoming a Constitution-free...

“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you. The Trump regime is already targeting immigrants who are here legally simply because they expressed opinions that Trump disagreed with....

President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent,...

“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution.” Seven Days in May (1964) Anyone who wants to put...

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest...

“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.” Ruth Ben-Ghiat,...

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human...

“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.” Justice Neil Gorsuch That didn’t take long. Within...

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to...

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher Wondering what to expect...

“Everyday the future looks a little bit darker.” Alan Moore, Watchmen We have become a nation adrift in a sea of government overreach, abuse and corruption. The following is a...

“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear The American police...

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with...

“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a ‘Bill of Temporary Privileges.’ And if you read...

“He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness’ sake!” “Santa Claus Is Coming...

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human...

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale This is how it begins. This is how it always begins, justified in the...

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be...