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I am not going to worry about "1984" coming until they start tapping this guys phone line or reading his email, let alone sending him to a reeducation camp. He has the right to continue to write tripe, and he shouldn't be bothered as long as he just continues to exercise his right to free speech. As he has nothing of real value to say, I will ignore him from now on.

A widely accepted belief that the STATE is always right and will take care of us is what got 12,000,000 Jews and non-Jews a largely resistance free trip to the showers -- and, sadly, got the passengers on those flights on Terrible Tuesday very suddenly dead. Some of them DID resist. They were TRUE heroes!!

They understood that, ultimately, each of us is -- or should be -- RESPONSIBLE for our own safety.

Our founding documents GUARANTEE us "...LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..." and charges government to defend the nation at the COLLECTIVE or corporate level. The US military is engaged in that perfectly legitimate function as you read this.

Notice the order there? Without LIFE , the rest is meaningless. The 7,000 dead men, women and babies (my God – the babies!) are finished with the other two.

If GOVERNMENT somehow prevents us from performing the task of self-preservation, it's time to instruct government to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.

Perhaps if US law-enforcement types had been out keeping a closer eye on clearly identified possible terrorist madmen – instead of jailing close to 800,000 peaceful weed smokers last year – Terrible Tuesday could have been prevented. I don’t smoke but it’s just a thought.

Either it's OUR government or it's someone else's government.

If it IS someone else's government (and my bet is that it now belongs to the aparachiks or bureaucrats), we'd better get about the business of finding out to whom it DOES belong – and getting it back.

Insanity is defined as “Doing the same thing over and over while expecting a DIFFERENT RESULT.”

And, to paraphrase the ancient Greeks, “Whom God would destroy, he first makes insane.”

Isn’t it time to STOP THE BUREAUCRATIC INSANITY?

I realize that expressions such as this put me at some risk under Voltaire’s warning that “IT’S DANGEROUS TO BE RIGHT WHEN THE STATE IS WRONG.” My SEETHING ANGER at the INSANITY that allowed the slaughter of 7,000 of us like helpless cattle has overwhelmed my better judgment.

And I continue to wonder how many of the anti-gun passengers of the 266 aboard those doomed aircraft PRAYED that someone OTHER than their killers had a BIGGER, BADDER WEAPON.

Tragically, no one did!

I am not going to worry about "1984" coming until they start tapping this guys phone line or reading his email, let alone sending him to a reeducation camp.

Yes, wait until then. Great idea! And don't let the fact that by then it would be too late to prevent give you pause.

While I don't completely agree w/ this author, he does bring up good points. And I do agree that NOW , even more, is the time to keep your eyes open and stay alert. Terrorists are not the only enemies to our freedoms. Please, don't forget that.