"Anything is possible, and if we all want to be perfectly safe, perhaps we should all be clapped in irons. But before the jailers clang the door shut, you and I and the woman who brings coffee might ask for just the tiniest bit of reasonable proof." -- Thomas Walkom, in the Toronto Star about 19 suspected terrorists arrested on the flimsiest of excuses.
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-- Vaclav Havel
He should know. He lived in communist East Europe.
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