I really need to disengage and get some work done, but I appreciate you elucidating upon your perspective.
OK you dont like the measures taken in furtherance of our war on terror on the home front, and I agree, these measures are an unwanted consequence of the imperitive to impede mass murder.
Far greater were the sacrifices made by the American public to deny global dominion to hitler in World War Two, everybody was very very happy when that conflict ended.
But people also had sufficient generosity of spirit to endure those sacrifices, to the point of having to go to jail for purchasing an extra stick of butter. God Bless those wonderful people.
I hope that only a few among us are too small of heart to accept any sacrifice to rid the world of the virulent evil we confront today, even as we all hope for an early victory.
Were the cause unjust, these miniscule sacrifices would be antithetical to the cause of freedom, but the blood of innocents leaves us no choice but to condemn, confront, and crush the threat of global terror. To do otherwise would be to accept complicity in the next act of infamy, and that is a condition we can not accept. The natural human right to not be torn to pieces so that some totalitarian freak can revel over the bloody corpses of his victims compels us to end these inhuman acts.
If you do not wish to make any sacrifices under the Patriot Act, I suggest that you avoid acting on any impulse to hurl women and children skyward with explosives. If you can find the generosity of spirit to forebear from aiding the purpetrators of mass murder form accomplishing their goal of killing every free human being on the planet, I trust that you will find your "natural rights" wholly intact.
I wish you good fortune as you endeavour to avoid making any sacrifices for your freedom, and I hope that you can accept the sacrifices of the servicemen who have died to protect you from a grisly end in good grace.
You sound like a GDamned socialist.
Thank you for an enjoyable afternoon! Have a great evening............ (and wipe that grin off your face!) :o)