To: mysterio
In the war against terror ,I believe there is no our side and your side.
52 posted on
11/19/2003 11:38:25 PM PST by
MEG33
To: MEG33
America is not no knock searches, roving wiretaps, holding individuals without charges, snooping into library records, internet spying, seizing property from the accused, drug raids in our schools, coercing judges into warrants, and stepping around a Constitution that interferes with any of the above. So don't tell me that they are protecting America. Destruction of our Constitution only completes the work that the terrorists have done.
No "our side and your side?" You prove it by being blind to what your side does. People would be screaming bloody murder on here if Janet Reno proposed this legeslation. I would be here doing the same. But now it's Ashcroft. I'm here. Where are you?
53 posted on
11/19/2003 11:47:47 PM PST by
mysterio
To: MEG33; mysterio
The only side now is America, or anti-American if you're a Democrat. Republican/Libertarian is moot. Conservatives - regardless of party affiliation - believe in a smaller, less intrusive, less expensive government, that actively defends the nation's interests abroad while also protecting it from outside invasion. We're a capitalist nation, not a nanny state socialistic one (supposedly). The Feds need to get the hell out of our way, stop giving away our nation's technical and military advantages to other nations in the feel-good free trade BS, and let the inventive nature of Americans tackle the problems that this nation faces without tying our hands behind our back through treaties we have no say in.
Yes, you can see I'm not exactly enamored with the current batch of Republicans and their actions. But I believe that my views are pretty much mainstream as a conservative - it's too bad that our party doesn't stay in touch with what the rank-and-file believe in.
54 posted on
11/19/2003 11:55:19 PM PST by
11B3
(Liberalism is merely another form of mental retardation.)
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