But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.''What sort of tools?'' More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance. No-knock laws. Stop and frisk laws. Government inspection of first-class mail. Automatic fingerprinting, photographing, blood tests, and urinalysis of any person arrested before he is charged with a crime. A law making it unlawful to resist even unlawful arrest. Laws establishing detention camps for potential subversives. Gun control laws. Restrictions on travel. The assassinations, you see, establish the need for such laws in the public mind. Instead of realizing that there is a conspiracy, conducted by a handful of men, the people reason–or are manipulated into reasoning–that the entire population must have its freedom restricted in order to protect the leaders. The people agree that they themselves can't be trusted. . Robert Anton Wilson
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John Dewey wrote in his book, "Democracy and Education," that the people are ruled by fraud. He states that people are being manipulated into accepting ideas that are not true.

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