Over-thinkers Anonymous

Misquoted:

Where tired clichés are updated to fit the New world order…

This week’s featured quotation artist: Thomas Jefferson*
(*I think he was the neighbour on Married with Children)

Just to prove I'm not anti-Republican (of course I am though) I have produced this small selection of ideas to demonstrate the evolution of republican thought. I have selected quotes from the early nineteenth century to compare how I think these ideas would be spun if they we thought of today, enjoy!

Then:
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by
individuals." --Thomas Jefferson to Col. Vanneter, 1781.
Now:
"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by
individuals who did not attend Yale for at least one semester."

Then:
"The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen,
against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may
assume." --Thomas Jefferson to A. H. Rowan, 1798.
Now:
"The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen,
against everything which is not law, not applicable in
Guantanamo Bay"


Then:
"Where the press is free, and every man able to read,
all is safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816.
Now:
"Next on Fox & friends:
If you challenge the government are you a terrorist?"