Originally Posted by
rickair7777
But grain of salt...this is a NY Times article.
So the fact that this was published in the NY Times automatically makes you take this with a grain of salt? First of all, this is not an article by a NY Times reporter. This is a guest opinion piece by a retired General. The only editing in guest opinion pieces are for grammar and syntax. Whether the trendy opinion that the NY Times is a "liberal pinko rag" is true or not has nothing to do with this piece.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No, this is not a conspiracy theory, I don't think anyone is planning anything it's just the natural progression as we drift towards a socialist nanny-state...eventually the nanny could morph into Big Brother.
"drift towards a socialist nanny-state"? Sure sounds conspiratorial to me.
But I digress.