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To: BobS

I am really sorry if I misinterpretted you - I certainly don't want to accuse anyone of desiring such a thing if it is not what they meant.

I do believe, however, that many, myself included, overreacted in the aftermath of 9/11, especially when it came to the Patriot Act (a 300+ page document that was pushed forward without so much as a debate). I don't consider opposing the broadening of government power to be a "lamb mindset" so much as a matter of conviction. In fact, I believe, quite the opposite, that the "lamb mindset" lays in people's desire to "let the government protect them" like a good shepherd. I also believe that it was this mindset that led to 9/11.

At any rate, sorry again for misinterpretting you.


121 posted on 12/17/2005 3:57:55 PM PST by MWS (Errare humanum est, in errore perservare stultum.)
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To: MWS
"...overreacted in the aftermath of 9/11,...

What? Those terrorists lived in Florida with various ID's before hijacking those planes! I will OVERREACT every time MY life is at stake. Are YOU prepared to bow down to them and let your head get cut off????

124 posted on 12/17/2005 4:03:11 PM PST by BobS
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