Thus the Republic falls to applause: No Fly list and gun control

[BIAD]

...Nixon kept an Enemies List. Hitler kept an Enemies List. Mao kept an Enemies list... and now the US government
does the same. This is no longer the free land I was born in, nor the free land I fought for. It looks a lot more like
the old Soviet Union - they very folks we were fighting against back in the day.
The Republic has already fallen, without a shot even being fired...

My Gosh! Not a truer word spoken.

I cannot comment on the gun-control situation as I'm not of the USA, but there's another principle
that Ninurta points at in the above paragraph that I totally agree with.

The overall foundations that the USA is built on is constantly being undermined by the tactic of
conditioning people to only look at different facets of 'security-orientated' debates. Piece-by-piece,
your liberties have not only been eroded, in some cases, they have gone.

Yet the media -who only need snippets and news-bites for their rating-coveting businesses, deliver
the information in such a way that the entire landscape of your freedoms is never truly shown.
Hence it's gun-control, politically-correct leniency for certain belief structures, fear-mongering for
certain belief structures, alleged Police strong-arm tactics, racial and gender arguments and many,
many more.

All bars on the fencing for herding the sheep to the pen.
Said with respect.