You missed my point. Freedom without a country to practice it in, is useless. ie:freedom taste good on a cracker.
Freedoms can be regained, destruction and annihilation cannot.
Backwards. We can always rebuild our buildings. Terrorists can never kill so many of us that we cannot replace our population. But once enough freedom is lost, it can be nearly impossible to get it back. A tyrant can not loosen his grip without losing his life.
There will be no tyrant in the United States. I have more faith in our citizens to believe that for a second. How do you suggest that we rebuild buildings should the worse scenario happen? Our economy will be destroyed. No money.
This country is the richest country in the world largely because, for years, we were the most free. Freedom creates wealth and wealth creates security.
How long would we stay rich? Let's say for the sake of argument that New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and any large city was wiped out. Do you honestly think that people would be scrambling to rebuild cities or scrambling to feed people? With our open borders anything is possible.
If al queda is calling 555-2355, I want to know who they are talking too, that could prevent that scenario from ever coming to fruition.
I can't imagine how the terrorists could take our country by armed force. I can imagine that we could lose our freedoms.
How do you suggest that we rebuild buildings should the worse scenario happen? Our economy will be destroyed. No money.
We have the strongest economy in the world. If half of it were destroyed, we would still have the GDP of Sweden. But they couldn't even do that because there really aren't that many loose nukes.
How long would we stay rich? Let's say for the sake of argument that New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and any large city was wiped out.
Pretty much the same thing happened to Japan. But today they are a major economic power.
There will be no tyrant in the United States. I have more faith in our citizens to believe that for a second.
I don't. We came within a gnat's eyelash of having a President Gore or a President Kerry. They elected Bill Clinton president -- twice! Clinton did more to appease the terrorists and empower evil regimes than anyone else. He and his cronies were digging though the dirt in those FBI files and God only knows what he found. Why do you think he wasn't removed from office?
I would like to know too, but the phone company and I and everyone else is prevented by law from listening to those calls. So why don't we do this? Instead of giving the government the power to listen in, why not give Americans that right?
Why don't we start thinking in terms of trusting citizens to do the right thing instead of trusting the government?