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There is a glaring contradiction and a theme of naivete in your comments:

So now we are passively waiting for the next move. Ironically, we the citizens are being given our own national police force for homeland defense. Will it protect us from the terrorists or protect the government from us? Posted by The Westerner

A force for home defense is the antithesis of waiting passively for the next move! Has it not yet sunk in that when we strike with our military overseas, the terrorists will activate a cell of fanatics to respond here in our homeland? Do you know where the cells are? Where they will strike? Have you a national network with which to seek out and apprehend these fanatical murderers? ... I didn't think so. But you imply the formation of a home defense system with which seeking, protecting, and apprehending may be accomplished, under the leadership of a central organization, is more to be feared than the unseen terrorists!

Listen up, those of you of a liberatarian mindset: we the people are the sovereigns. When we agree to have public roads and parks, we cede some of our sovereignty to a central authority for oversight. But with free elections, we the people retain longrange control over that central authority. History tells us that many restrictive measures were instituted during WWII, but mostly we have seen the erasing of those measures. I don't fear the restrictive measures as much as I fear the laxity of the people, that the sovereign responsibility will not be exercised and our stewardship met by voting in large numbers and with interest in the maintenance of our sovereignty when the crisis and urgency is over.

If an American wants to focus on what needs attending by we the people, look at the tendency to elect liars and thieves, at the willingness of we the people to allow the sycophantic media to misdirect and outright lie to US when the truth is available but squelched, of greedy measures like clinton and gore utilized for their party's monetary gain but which left US more vulnerable than ever to the horrendous acts of terrorists!

Vigilance isn't something a sovereign people can exercise for intermittent times yet ignore for longer periods of self-indulgence. You want to fear the INS or BATF, get active in elections EVERY time the ballot boxes open, to establish responsive, honest representatives with fidelity to we the people instead of their damn leftist parties.

Was security lax at airports? Sure it was; the people running the airlines had figured out how to buy off the gore loyalty to the people that would have cost the airlines money if they had been instituting stiffer security measures. Are the terrorists enemies of our nation more capable of hiding their intentions from our intel? Sure they are; the clinton administration sold technology to anyone able to stuff the election coffers of the criminal enterprise democrat party. And we can cite examples of pubby complicity also ... it is the pubby Senate that wouldn't exercise their responsibility to have the whole damn dirty truth out in the open during a sham impeachment trial that kept the criminal deviant clinton in office!

You want to suspect? Suspect the American people of becoming too damn distracted with the bread and circuses to exercise their duty as the sovereigns of this nation, in electing honest, responsive, patriotic governmental representatives! Tough words? Damn right! But I tell the truth. We are the ones ultimately responsible for our weakened, inattentive state of existence. Now we must take strong measures, but we must have better memories, to continue our vigilance when the storm passes, and we exercise that vigilance through free elections ... or we will fall prey again to PC socialists who will sell our sovereignty like al gore, biill clinton, trent lott, dick gephardt, hillary clinton, and a host of others have done right before our glazed-over eyes.

You ask, "Will it protect us from the terrorists or protect the government from us?" I tell you of a truth, the government cannot avoid our oversight, if we will but exercise it openly ... like when the voting booths open up for the sovereigns to express their will and the political campaigns leading up to the elections. In a Republic, we are the sovereigns, if we can keep it.

"Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment. Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on us. Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail."

-- GW Bush to Joint Session, Sep. 20, 2001

like clinton and gore utilized for their party's monetary gain but which left US more vulnerable than ever to the horrendous acts of terrorists!

In between reading posts here at FR, I am this very hour also preparing testimony regarding Chinagate for my attornies. The time is ripe. Maybe someone will listen now.

A great post. 'tarian fatuousness leads them to reflexively bloviate about anything that might restrict their activities. They're kinda into the "it's all about us" thing. The good news is, they're not that hard to mostly ignore - and as we found out in 2000, their "worst" ain't all that bad.