the United States would become less secure and the preparations for defence and retaliation would have to be intensified. But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is premanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/710907.html