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A disturbing reminder of how fragile the freedoms
we regard as being fundamental to our society really are.

Personal rights and liberties guaranteed by a constitution
are no more durable
than the whims of the current regime of elected officials.

That is something the ostensible beneficiaries
of those rights and liberties forget at their peril.

"Take a lesson from the weather,
It pays no mind to criticism."