To: ActionNewsBill; ValenB4; billbears
"I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"
It really is quite amusing. This very argument has been used by "conservatives" to justify the Patriot Act and illegal government wiretaps: "It's worth it if it prevents another 9/11."
59 posted on
02/17/2006 7:06:53 AM PST by
sheltonmac
(QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES)
To: sheltonmac
Reading through this thread I find the indignation about the chief's remarks to be quite sad. He must not be a Republican. We all know, or at least we have been told, that only Republicans know how to handle this level of 'protection' properly....
60 posted on
02/17/2006 7:30:13 AM PST by
billbears
(Deo Vindice)
To: sheltonmac
It'd be worth it if they were serious about stopping another attack. Like allowing civilians the full force of their 2A Rights. Such as allowing personal firearms carry, with airline certified "aircraft safe" ammo of course, on flights.
Wiretaps, TSA, and Homeland inSecurity are just smoke screens. Stop gap measures and expansion of Federal power. It has little to do with real safety.
61 posted on
02/17/2006 7:48:26 AM PST by
Dead Corpse
(I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
To: sheltonmac
It really is quite amusing. This very argument has been used by "conservatives" to justify the Patriot Act and illegal government wiretaps: "It's worth it if it prevents another 9/11."
It was initially amusing that some so-called Conservatives had this attitude. Now it scares the hell out of me.
Tom Cruise can say something about Bush and it will generate multiple threads racking up hundreds, if not thousands of responses.
A thread like this usually generates well under a 100. That tells you where the priorities of many "Conservatives" are these days.
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