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It is funny that you would call me short-sighted though, because that is exactly what I think of the rest of you. You are willing to sell out a little bit at a time for a short term advantage of having a President with an elephant by his name. When I explain this to people I say that we need to think on a longer term and be ready to accept a little pain now to avoid lots of pain later. We have been on a road to decline for some time. We the people are giving our God given rights up for scraps from government's table. I for one intend to at least try and get some back. I will carry on in Reagan's uncompromising tradition. Or at least if I compromise, it will mean that I only get half of what I want instead of giving the liberals half of what they want.

The very act of forming a government means we give up rights. If you refer to the Patriot Act, which is the only place I can see a Bush invasion on our rights, which of MannyP's rights are being violated by any Bush act? I worry that it will be hard to turn back the Patriot Act, when this war ends, by then Bush will not be President and our representatives will have to take care of that. But without reforms after 9-11, how do you honestly expect your government to protect us? More Police with advance Military Counter Insurgency training and functions, soldiers on every street corner, how? Israel has that and they cannot stop a car bomb, how can we protect an open society like ours without being intrusive? The answer is not to vote for Kerry or let him win by default, especially because as he stated last night he feels the threat of terrorism is overblown! Yea, I am sure New Yorkers agree.