Happy-nicing Ourselves into a Dictatorship

Every day I hear more and more stories about how, in the name of doing good and in the name of doing nice things, we lose more liberties and freedoms. Again, I refer to you Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism." Here is a good review/interview of it here.

Basically, the idea I am getting at is that the United States is not going to adopt a dictatorship in the manner that liberals describe- it isn't going to be King George using the military to take control of our nation and take away our freedoms and liberties. It will be The One, one by one taking away our liberties and freedoms, all in the name of fairness, niceness, and happiness.

No one is going to show up at your door and demand you turn over your firearms- they'll make laws registering it, locking it up, holding it in 'secure' locations for happy use when the government says you can 'safely' have it. No one is going to tell you you aren't allowed to speak out agains the war- but they will say you have to be fair, and if you speak out in favor of the war, you have to also pay to have someone speak out against it (fairness doctrine). No one will say you don't have the right to a lawyer- they'll instead say that you have to have a state mandated one to be fair, and they'll give you the sucky state-mandated one to be really fair to you. No one will say you have the right to a fair trail- but they will say that you have to be nicer to the person who just beat you and took your money, and that they have a right to a fair trail. In the name of niceness and fairness, you will become less free and live under a dictatorship.

From the movie Serenity: "Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. "