[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Deconstructionists are those who are subtly destroying the Constitution, the laws, the culture, the history of the nation.

Most of those people ARE in the government, with the majority of the rest in the Media and Academia.

People expressing outrage at the deconstruction of this nation by those elitists, whether pols, judges, newsreaders or professors, is not deconstructionist.

[cajungirl]

I agree with you in part. But I plan to use the term to describe those who put the ppeople who are our public servants, Tom Ridge in particular is the one we were discussing, in impossible dilemmas. Tom Ridge is damned if he does and if he doesn't, belittled, called names because he is not doing the agenda of certain people whether that is a good thing or not. He and his shop are treated by some like they are maliciously destroying our constitution. I call that deconstructionism. We are trying to survive a terrible war, certain things need to be done to fight that war at this time, to bitch and moan and personalize those things when so far noone I know can name a way Patriot Act has affected them is pure deconstructionism. They , people like some on this thread, would put their personal preferences and their interpretation of their liberty above the safety of all of us. I disagree with them and see them as just tearing down, not attempting to build. We have no one but our government lookiing out for us right now,,,we owe them some support and loyalty. When a fight is on, it is not a good idea to carp, bitch and sow distrust of our leaders,,,unless of course you are a deconstructionist. So we disagree.