Gore Vidal (at 17 minutes) said:
"Every president wants to be a dictator. It is the nature of power. You don’t accept limited powers unless you’re a very limited man."Gore Vidal said in 1999:
"I don’t know where the Internet is going to go but I do know that the government is going to try and take it over. You can count on that."Glenn Greenwald (at 26 minutes) said there are lots of reasons why people should be concerned about civil liberties, even if theirs aren’t being infringed or abridged. He gave two reasons.
Firstly:
"The first of which, history leaves no doubt that, although civil liberties infringements begin in a very confined way - directed at the most marginalized minorities about whom people don’t care or to whom they direct their hostility – it is inevitable, absolutely inevitable that those civil liberties abridgments, once they are entrenched, will spread ; and they’ll spread far beyond their original intended targets."He continued:
