"If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by……" — Joe Bageant

"If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door."

— Joe Bageant

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