Posted on 12/21/2005 6:13:04 PM PST by tsmith130
These guys would be the FIRST to freak out at the next 9/11 screaming how they weren't being protected. Paranoid fools.
I watched the Trade Cenerts go down ..that wasen't a TV show guys.It was horribly real.Good security sense and intelligence gathering may just prevent that from happining again ( may have already ) small price to pay having to show an ID isn't it ?
Do you even know what your talking about?
if they were actually taking the direct approach to 'protecting' us I would look at this very differently. I do not feel that onerous measures that impact ALL of us to avoid singling out the people that commit terrorist acts (one ethnic group tends to do this) merits my patriotic support.
The classic and still-present example - Do you feel safer when you see granny being frisked at the airport?
Do you think this is how america would have reacted, say, in 1942? Would our reaction today make us any safer than a likely US reaction in 1942 to this sort of islamic terrorism?
"The only people I know who really voice support for this nonsense are nanny state lovers..."
Don't you know? Republican nanny states are good!
Unlike the majority of your entering year, you are a welcome addition to FR; you understand what's what! A belated hearty WELOME TO FR! And a MERRY CHRISTMAS or HAPPY HANNUKA to you and yours.
One would think. I was watching FOX news when they broke in and showed LIVE the plane hitting the second building. I will never forget it.
btw, so far I still haven't seen anyone explain how their freedoms have been hurt. I'm still waiting.......... lol
I did read it ..We are fighting back ..Smart intelligence and security measures are common sense and NOT living life on our knees ..What a moronic hyperbole.
HAH , 'you may have blow up another city but we never gave up our right to carry a Swiss Army knife on a plane "
That will show them huh pal ?
Agreed, yes, you ARE "sick". That's the ONLY correct thing you've posted all night.
Since you don't know what anyone who posts to FR does for a living, your juvenile post is not only pathetic and silly, it is worthless to boot.
"btw, so far I still haven't seen anyone explain how their freedoms have been hurt. I'm still waiting.......... lol"
It opens the doors for abuse. And just because my freedoms haven't been abused (who knows, maybe they have) doesn't mean I want the government abusing other American citizens' freedoms.
Yea. And his pants are on fire. He has to be a active card carrying communist. I don't know how else to look at it. Have a good one, I gotta hit the sack, my eyeballs have had it.
Truth.
Thank you sir..I been around awhile ..mostly just read along..Had to jump in on this one though ..Such utter nonsense from a few here. Don't have brains nough to protect themselves in the name of saving their constitional rights. All wars have relied on the SMART us eof intelligence gathering . The lack of that type of intelligence is what allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place. I wouldn't stay up any later waiting for the list of "lost freedoms" since the Patriot Act was passed to be posted.Oh yea , I forgot the Swiss Army knife on the plance..Oh man ..I need sleep here ..Beyond belief.The writers of the Constitution would be rolin gin their graves if they saw the extent people are going here.
a lot of people trust their government and don't believe it could ever use a power we give it today in the future for something quite different than what was intended. I am not familiar with the historical precedents they cite, hve not actually seen any cited. Maybe the commerce clause?
I do wonder how many people would put a two-way TV like Winston Smith's in their house if FedGov said it would help catch terrorists.
These folks would never have made it during WWII.
So your life hasn't been affected one iota. Nor anyone in your family or your friends and neighbors. I thought as much.
Following the law to the very last letter in all aspects is insane. You obviously have not tried to understand the tax laws. You obviously have not read up on work rules and regulations.
Following the law exactly is why 90 year old grandma's get strip searched at the airport.
Following the law means singing an altered version of "Silent Night" at school.
You can ask the whingers here the same question 500 times in a row. They will NEVER answer. Yes, they are exactly like the person you asked that question of.
Like the damned Dems, who wrap themselves in the flag, so that gullible people will think that they are patriotic, even when they are not, those who, who wrap themselves in the Constitution and cry about how nobody else is a REAL Conservative, it's a phony game.
Oh, but wait until it is THEY who want something...that's when the government isn't doing enough for THEM! LOL
Yada... Yada... Yada... Phhhhht!!!
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