‘First They Came for the People Who Text While Driving…

and I didn’t speak out, because I don’t text while I drive.” Ft. Lee, New Jersey has become the first town in the United States of Amerika to ban texting while walking. When reading about Orwellian laws such as this, I am always reminded of the words of James Madison:

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

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9:08 pm on May 13, 2012