[JeffAtlanta]

Are you accustomed to ordering people around?

It says a lot that you are avoiding the question. Why do you even post your opinions if you are unwilling to back them up?

I asked a simple question. How will we know when this "emergency" is over? With WWII we knew when Germany and Japan surrendered. With the Civil War, the North knew the war was over with the South surrendered.

In this war on terrorism, how will we know when the war is won and civil rights that were temporarily taken away can be returned?

If you can't answer this, then it doesn't make much sense to proclaim that citizens must make sacrifices during time of war.

[Beckwith]

With WWII we knew when Germany and Japan surrendered.

If it were 1942 or 1943 how would you answer your own question? How would you have known about the bomb?

With the Civil War, the North knew the war was over with the South surrendered.

If it were 1863 or 1864 how would you answer your own question?

So, to answer your silly question and to quote the great sage Yogi Berra, "it's over when it's over."

Now, let me ask you a question? Name one civil right that has been taken away from you, personally, just one and back it up.