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Posted on 01/31/2006 8:47:11 AM PST by smoothsailing
Right.
Surveillance on Americans while the ravening hordes pour across our borders unchecked.
How about a blanket statement from the Commander in Chief that effective immediately, any and all law abiding adults not incarcerated should (as their conscience permits them) be at all times fully armed until the terrorist threat can reasonably be deemed neutralized.
This not only puts millions of law abiding guns on the streets, but effectively makes the terrorists job orders of magnitude more difficult. Hard to blow up a bus if you stand up and start chanting to Allah to accept your sole and some Grandmother puts a 170gr .40 cal hollowpoint in your turbin.
This would also be a hell of a lot cheaper than any TSA or FEMA organization could ever be. 80 million of us already own close to 300 million firearms. Letting us carry our property around with us is the cheapest, sanest, most Constitutional option out there. It would also be incredibly effective. To deny this would verge on lunacy.
Patriots must act but they are still tone deaf and can't carry a tune.
This is old news.
So tonight, Mr. Bush should; and I am confident, will ; make clear that neither he nor the Congress have any duty higher than that of protecting the American people
So true.
But until the borders are delt with the "security" argument is a joke.
This is begining to strain the limits of reason.
No offence, but GWB does not have the guts to make that blanket statement.
The "patriot" act is just the revamped, renamed wishlist of the Clinton justice department. There's nothing "patriotic" about the act. If they want to change the Constitution, pass an Amendment.
Unfortunately, the administration wasted the time that could have been used to fix the various problems in the act and so avoid the whole mess.
Here is some more "old news":
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety..."
Benjamin Franklin
I will watch the STU tonight, but if President Bush does not speak at length of controlling the border and getting the people who are here illegally out of this nation I, regrettably, will have to walk away from the President. I will have no longer have any doubt, President Bush isn't interested in protecting America, America's citizen, or America's towns and cities.
xxxx out first "have" 2nd sentence
None taken as I completely agree. There are very few currently holding office that would see this as a "good thing". It is more important to retain control than it is to promote real freedom.
"Surveillance on Americans while the ravening hordes pour across our borders unchecked."
Makes perfect sense to me.
/sarcasm
And I'm sure the crimaliens are more than making up for the money I used to donate to the RNC and Republican candidates.
Who needs my money and my votes?
Obviously nobody does.
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here
Here is some more "old news":
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety..."
Sad that so many are eager to make the trade.
I actually had a poster tell me on another thread that Franklin's words didn't apply to the world today and the threats we face.
Really sad.
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