[Amelia]

I'm not saying we should give up civil rights, I'm saying that haing the military defend OUR soil and OUR borders to me is more important than most of the foreign ventures we've been involved with over the last 40 years. Do you agree or disagree?

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I disagree. I am quite capable as a citizen, given the full swing of my civil rights enumerated in the BoR, of protecting me and my community and my state. Federal troops are the troops of our tyrant-government that has NEVER INCREASED OUR FREEDOM but only increased our security and that at dread cost.

My use of 'tyrant-government' is rhetorical allusion to, for example, The Patriot's line "which do you prefer, one tyrant that's three thousand miles away or three thousand tyrants one mile away?" Because YOU agree with a tyrant doesn't make it good.

Given my presence and my rights as a citizen, I could have gladly died at Columbine HS or the WTC while trying to stop them. I will gladly be convicted of whatever as long as I am given the right to intervene as a citizen and not merely exist as a sheeple. A sheeple that's disallowed defense and expected to die uncomplainingly.

I took up arms because of Columbine HS.