and while at war, what else should we give up? if they asked you to delay the election because of war would you?if they asked you to turn in your guns because of war would you? if they asked you to take your freedom of speech and withhold it ..only for a while.. would you?
i guess that question is already answered. the bigger picture or should i say the longer picture is, if we allow even these little things to start eroding our rights, the slope becomes very steep and hard to stop the slide. imagine sometime in the future near or far if another party is in power. the things we write about here might be considered illegal protest and banned.(or fined if uncle sam can find a way to make a buck off you)
...Yer right, the slope is getting steep, but when and how we disagree or protest, should be to our elected representatives, IMO, not in public, for our enemies to use against US...
OK, one more time for the hard-of-thinking:
Leftist apparatchik* John Nichols took the fact that a jerk got arrested while protesting during a Bush visit (note: while protesting, not for protesting) and made up a bunch of real scary fictions, using quotes from his trusted Socialist fellow-travelers.
freeeee took Nichols' piece and ran with it, all 120 miles from Dubuque, Iowa to La Crosse, Wisconsin. It's a large crock of Left-wing hogwash, and freeeee thinks it's a steaming hot bowl of delicious anti-Bush Stone Soup.
Well, it's steaming, all right.
*I googled up "John Nichols" and "Clinton" and the very first hit I got was a June 5, 2003 column by Nichols entitled "Hillary Clinton hardly a liberal icon". Furthermore, Commondreams is practically conducting a love affair with the guy.