I'd like to ask you to join me in a drink... "Here's to our allowing this to happen. We are a pathetic, fearful, little people who don't, it seems to me, deserve the freedoms that our ancestors fought so courageously for. Cheers."

- Mark Maynard

Perhaps the worst realization in our government run-amuck with power over it's people - is not that those in positions of power use that power to obtain more, but that we've let them get away with it. And for the worst of reasons: fear. I read Mark's 'toast' and I feel ashamed, I feel guilty, I feel that I have let down people who have given me a great responsibility.

I'm afraid that history won't paint me, or anyone else alive today over the age of 18, in a positive light.