Waterboarding. The Patriot Act. Suspension of Habeus Corpus. Guantanamo Bay. National ID Card Legilsation. Arizona requiring 'papers' for internal mobility. Suspicionless searches. Civil "forfeiture." Kelo vs. New London. Victimless "crimes." Deep Water Drilling without emergency plans. Wall Street Bailouts. Foreign entaglements in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anakin: "I think this war is destroying the principles of the Republic."
Padmé: "Have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side?"
Anakin: "What do you mean?"
Padmé: "What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we've been fighting to destroy?"
Padme: "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."
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