Posted on 01/01/2006 2:55:51 PM PST by SunSetSam
This is a winner.
You posted right and you posted good.
Welcome to Free Republic.
If you ever get set upon by some of the appeasers here, please don't hestitate to call on me or the others here who are agreeing with you.
We can not live in fear or be governed by the fears of others.
Why do you have a problem with that? Do you support McPains bill of rights for terrorist?
Somebody has to make the decision Champ, we're at war. I'm eternally thankful the decision maker in this case is not some anti-American, brain dead arsehole like yourself and your idol, John F'ing Kerry.
In Israel they search you car before it can be parked in a garage.
You have to open your brief case when even asked.
You visit certain locations and the IDF is on the adjoining roofs aiming down.
Frankly monitoring calls from known terrorists to people inside the US is just plain common sense.
Thanks. I'll go there next.
3000 deaths didn't satisfy you.
What does it take 300,000. Can we try to intercept them before they act then or do we still have to be reactive instead of proactive.
You are plenty welcome to make that choice for yourself but I would like to say one word:
Beslan
Constitution never contained anything about a right to privacy.
It is a found right.
Still got them back though.
You said once lost never regained.
How much liberty will you have should the islamofacist win in the US? What rights will they guarantee you? Will you be able to worship God or only allah? Will you be able to speak out against the injustices that islam brings, or will they simply cut your head off?
It's a paradox, the question of liberty vs safety.
See what? You have made no point beyond expressing your feelings of paranoia that the President of the United States can't be trusted with defining who our war-time enemies are. Your assinine post clearly reveals you as a paranoid leftist whose wobbly little mind is easily manipulated by allegations from the New York Times, that liberal bastion of overt political bias.
As a libertarian, I am very sensitive to loss of freedom. But I'm not sure how NSA phone taps denies people freedom. If I learned that someone was listening in on phone calls of mine, I'd consider it rude, but their listening doesn't prevent me from living my own life.
Our president says that they hate us for our freedom, well why give them what they want, and make ourselves less free?
In 1998, Osama bin Laden issued a declaration of war against all Americans everywhere and called on all Muslims to kill as many of us as possible.
It isn't just our freedom he despises. He called for us to be dead, and anything short of that is not giving him what he wants.
I say a praywr daily.
We love our Vets!
JLO
If you will accept that destroying is the same, or as bad as, conquering, yes. They are just part of a larger effort. They can certainly do their part to accomplish the goal. They can do more damage and do it quicker than their fellow travelers since they are not even partially constrained by morals, values, or law.
It is a found right.
Sheesh. All rights are inherent in the people. They do exist even without being enumerated in the BoR. The right is so anxious to over ride Roe v Wade that they will destroy our liberty. We have a right to privacy else we wouldn't have the 4th Amendment. What we don't have is the right to harm another (rape, rob, murder, or abort) in private.
D'uh.
We got them back 60 and 150 years ago. Have you noticed that government has expanded since then and that liberty and the public's understanding of liberty has receded?
Now that we are always at war and against a real but hard to pin down and identify enemy, the government will not be as willing to relinquish any power ceded to them.
The government's security measures are aimed at protecting the government, not us, or haven't you noticed that either?
"I don't ask for handouts, so why should I handout to others??"
- Proverbs 19:17, if you can receive it.
Do you really believe that they can defeat us?
Oh ye of little faith.
The Japanese didn't invade us because they knew that they American public would be as formidable a foe as the American military. We are an armed populace. Do you think that we'd just sit by and let them -- or any invader -- just roll over us?
Do you realize that the only proven (publically known) attack against us that was thwarted was thwarted by civilians? I know that there there are reports of 'this plan' or 'that plan' was disrupted and they might even have existed. It's to the enemy's advantage to cause fear. It's to our protective force's advantage to claim that those threats are real.
Cynical? You bet I am. Do you remember the ATF's need to be relevent about ten years ago? Do you remember Waco and Ruby Ridge? Yes. I am cynical. I do not trust my government as you do. They will protect themselves at any and all cost -- to the taxpayer.
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