Stossel: Fight Back

Newsmax.com ^ | 3-31-04 | Paige McKenzie

[CMAC51]

"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

Is Sir Tyler correct? Where are we are in Sir Tyler's progression?

I have always held the firm belief that immigrants were the driving force in keeping the thirst for liberty alive and well in the United States. The fact that they could come here and through trial and effort become full partners in the American Dream continually renewed the spirit of the country. So, even when we celebrated our Bicentennial, the average age of great civilizations, the US was still the shining example of liberty and opportunity in the world.

Today we have emphasis on group identity, Afro-American, Asian-American, Hispanic, etc. The group identity is used to drive dependency. Dependency chokes the spirit of individual responsibility which is the backbone of liberty. The "American" needs to come first in everyone's identity or we will continue to slide toward some form of totalitarianism. Our true freedom will be lost.

[gunnedah]

America with the aid of the liberals in both parties is headed toward a Dictatorship and the legal profession is doing everything it can to help.
Once the government takes control and the Liberals have their way we will go the way of the old Soviet Union and like all the past great nations.
America is destructing from within because of this fear and intimidation factor.
The devil himself doesnt display the hatred that the Democrat Party does.

[petercooper]

yes - bad choice on Chris Wallace. He's lame

[coloradan]

It's hard to argue how that link presents the other side of the argument. Government agents (1) were tipped off about Arabic students studying how to fly, but not take off or land, jumbo jets, (2) had an informant living with one of the future 9-11 terrorists, (3) had more than half of the terrorists on their watch lists, but (4) allowed the sale of plane tickets anyway, even though they (5) used their own credit cards (6) in their own names, and (7) some even got extensions of their visas months after dying in the attacks from the INS.

The case against these terrorists was handed to the government on a silver platter multiple times, and they did nothing. This confirms Stossel's views, and hardly supports "the other side of the argument."

[Wolfie]

Yeah, "We ignored the obious intelligence. So the solution is for us to get into the minutae of Americans' lives". The sad fact of the matter is that we're just as stupid as they think we are.