[MineralMan]

"And we thank you."

No, thank you! Someone has to live there, I suppose, and we wouldn't want everyone there to be Fred Phelps.

[middie]

Some acquiesencent poster out there in FR-Land will reply with the old rubric that is a confession of acceptance of a tyrranical regime: ''Well, if you've done nothing wrong and have no reason to insist on your constitutional immunites, you shouldn't be objecting to efficient law enforcement.''

Note: there was no crime and very efficient law enforcement in a large European country between 1933 and 1945. Those attributes of a government should not be the standard by which conduct is measured.