[Jameison]

" someone is going to have to run a check where they didn't previously run a check, then we are reducing freedoms and inconveniencing ourselves"

WE already run checks before renting a place to someone, and for practically every utility,including fixed line phones.
Running a check for cell phones is simply running a check on another utility.
We are not "reducing" any freedoms" that most cell phone owners don't already go without.

"Inconveniencing ourselves"?
Oh puleeze.
I travel all the time,and since 9/11, airport checks have been far more stringent than before.
I have had to take off my shoes, be called aside and had the metal detector thing run all over my body, told to stretch my arms, lift legs etc etc.
Is that "inconveniencing myself" too?
Yes.
Is that necessary? You bet.
Does every American that travels have to deal with it already?
YES.
You don't have a point.

[WFTR]

I'm sorry to think that if someone saves this country from our enemies, they'll have to save you along with it. I'm ashamed that you call yourself an American. If it had been left up to people like you, we'd still be British subjects, and you'd be arguing for how reasonable the tea taxes are.

Let me know when you become something more than a sheeple.

I can't tell whether you are just too stupid to understand my points or whether you are just being dishonest when you try to claim that I support the NY Times publication of programs designed to spy on our enemies. Either way, your inability to make your arguments to what I've actually said is more evidence that your arguments are nonsense.

Bill