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To: Nick5

I'm just telling you what's going to happen if you get your way. A mega terror attack will lead to an end to this argument. There will be no more discussion. Please tell me you at least understand the concept of an end of democracy if the terror attack is big enough. I would really like you to think about that.


32 posted on 11/10/2005 1:35:43 PM PST by samtheman
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To: samtheman

What you are saying is of course true, in terms of what can happen now. Think of this, too: Today on the streets of Jordan ordinary citizens were marching and crying out that last night's wedding murders have nothing to do with Islam. We need to keep encouraging that, to be a light to the hopes of ordinary people everywhere, and if there are prisoners lying lonely and terrified and tormented in an American-run prison in Romania, who are innocent, then we are just different from our enemies but not better, and if we're not better, why should the ordinary citizens on the streets of Aman or Cairo or Jakarta look to our way as a better way? The rules of due process in the Constitution reflect universal and, I believe, divinely ordained truths. Do divinely ordained truths come with geographical or ethnic borders?


33 posted on 11/10/2005 1:43:56 PM PST by Nick5
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