I sent this post to Representative Devin Nunes, (R) CA-21st District after reading on his web site that people who believe in telling on the government when it is doing something wrong should be prosecuted, that the Liberals are responsible for $4 gasoline, that Iraq was a good thing, and that health care is available to all, we’re just too uninformed on how to find it.

Some of you may recognize these quotes, as they are some of my favorites.

"The Founder's of our Nation would be somewhat surprised to see how much our Representative government has become our Repressive government. When members of our Congress openly state that our security is more important that the rights of the people, then this free country, founded on principles that were ahead of their time, is on its way to its conclusion. Do you ever find it somewhat ironic that we purport to serve the interests of freedom, democracy and justice while killing people around the world who had nothing to do with 9-11; Or, the fact that this country acts as if a murder we commit in the name of freedom is somehow magically transformed into something that the dead should be proud to have suffered at our hands?

Will you be so sure of yourself when the gigantic national security machine slips so far into the hands of private companies that no one, not even short sighted Representatives and dimwitted Presidents will be safe? Here are some quotes from history that will shed some light on that:

"That [the intelligence ]capability [of the US could] at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything. Telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.

If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.

Such is the capability of this technology. I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."
--Senator Frank Church after a review of the NSA in 1975

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
--Sir Winston Churchill

"It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.”
--Joseph Paul Goebbels

"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies.”

"WHAT LUCK FOR THE RULERS THAT MEN DO NOT THINK.”
--Adolf Hitler

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.”
--Herbert Hoover

“Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism…Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others”.
— Emma Goldman

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”
— Samuel Adams

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
--Adolf Hitler

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies…if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent that their fathers conquered.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State"
— Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels

"The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: ‘It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.’

Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it.

Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
--Mark Twain

"He who would surrender his liberties for the sake of his security shall have neither"
--Franklin

History will be the judge of the most dangerous country to ever exist sir, and your name will be in that number

This email got the following response from Mr. Nunes' office: See Next Entry