Mr. Elkins, of course, is right on target. As a long-time poster on FreeRepublic, I'm shocked by the pro-totalitarian sentiments being expressed on this forum. Bush's new Department of Homeland Security should scare the hell out of all of us. If Clinton had proposed the same monstrosity, he'd be catching hell right now.
It's time to forget about party labels and party politics. All of us need to stand tall and oppose the new phone-tapping and Internet-surveillance schemes being hatched by this administration. Our true enemies lie within our borders. Osama bin Laden and his minions need to be dealt with, but in the long run they are not the most dangerous threat to our freedom. The Orwellian police-state measures now being proposed by this administration are far more dangerous to our liberties.
We cannot let this administration use its self-proclaimed "war on terrorism" as an excuse to declare war on our constitution. It is our solemn duty as freedom-loving Americans to do everything within our power to oppose the creation of a soviet-style police apparatus -- regardless of which political party is in power.
Good point. I doubt if all these conservatives would be rallying around Clinton with calls of "he's a traitorous son-of-a-bitch but he's OUR son-of-a-bitch" right now. They'd be looking to impeach him again for allowing it to happen. And they would somehow be able to recognize all these recycled and previously rejected measures for what they are: power grabs by the government which wouldn't make us one bit safer from terrorism.