Shamelessly borrowed from Neatorama here is something that reminds me again and again that the price of freedom is constant vigilance.


Freedom, According to Justice William O. Douglas

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."

"It was against a background poignant with memories of evil procedures that our Constitution was drawn."

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."

"An arrest is not justified by what the subsequent search discloses."

"The framers of the Constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They had lived in dangerous days; they knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."

"Those who won our independence believed ... liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."

"Whatever the reason, words mean what they say."

"What a man thinks is of no concern to government."

"A requirement that literature or act conform to some norm prescribed by an official smacks of an ideology foreign to our system."

"Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest."

"Common sense often makes good law."

"When a man knows how to live dangerously, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live."

I hear you........and I love your outfit!! Where did you get it????

It's a corset from a ren fair. It's actually very comfy to wear, it forces you to sit up straight! Very good for the back! Yes the girls are hard to ignore in it too.

I originally posted the pic because it was one of the few I had of me. (A girlfriend took it the other summer) Since then I've used it because it pisses people off, makes them laugh or motivates them to send a pm which is entertaining.

When I was being fitted for the corset the salesperson was a man. He'd fitted two women before me and had a line of three or four women waiting to be fitted. He kept grinning and saying he loved his job. I think he really did too! haha