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To: MissAmericanPie
   But we don't need massive inroads against the Bill of Rights, we simply need to enforce the laws already on the books, utilize the tools already in place, and stop acceding to the idea that the nanny-state is supposed to remove all risk in our lives. Had people had such a mind-set prior to 9/11, those planes would never have made it to the buildings.

   Our intelligence community knew who most of these perpetrators were, and did absolutely nothing to curtail their activities - even after specific warnings from at least two different foreign gov'ts. There are no measures that can be taken that will ever stop random acts of insanity, but grand schemes, plots that involve many months of planning, many accomplices, and could affect many, many people - we already have the means to uncover and interdict. There is no threat so great that I might be convinced to live under such a gov't. that would ignore man's most basic freedoms - destroying the very ideas & principles that made America great, in order to preserve...what? What would be left? Could we really still call it America?

111 posted on 12/17/2001 1:27:33 PM PST by Le-Roy
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To: Le-Roy
What I see happening, is that they are trying to do the best they can with the mess they have created by rounding up and interviewing young Muslim men and deporting those with visa violations, that is enforcing the laws on the books. They are cleaning out the airports of illegal immigrants, that is a law on the books.

What I don't want, is for everyone here to be forced to accept and live with the dangers of any more immigrants from terrorist nations. It matter's little to me that they are nice, good, people, they can be good in their own country that evidently is set up just the way the Quaran likes it, oppressive. If they don't like oppression, throw down that religion and it's mandates don't bring it here to gain political influence, with their oil money, in the corrupt pockets of our congressmen that have "for sale cheap" tatooed on their foreheads, because I feel we are under a two pronged attack here from radical Muslims.

113 posted on 12/17/2001 3:20:33 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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