[Romulus]

The country's at war, so everyone should wise up.

I'm getting mighty tired of this "don't you know there's a war on?" excuse as a tactic of criminalizing every Tom, Dick, & Harry, all the better to advance the aims of Big Brother. For a certain species of "conservative", there's never enough law 'n' order. Even as thousands of Stalinist apparatchiks sang his praises up till and including the moments when they were marched out and shot on his orders.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

It gets lonely being the only person in this country capable of making foolish, idiotic, but innocent mistakes.

What is scary is the number of our fellow freepers who seem to be willing to hang anyone out to dry.

[Jay W]

I'm getting mighty tired of this "don't you know there's a war on?"

The source of this confusion is in Congress deciding to NOT Declare War. In the days that followed 9-11 there were a lot of people here, including myself, who wanted Congress to Declare War.

For whatever reason, Congress decided NOT to Declare War.

Thus, officially, there is no war, because Congress in its supposed infinite wisdom decided that it did not need to make such a declaration, never mind the fact that in terms of the sheer numbers of lives lost and property destroyed the "events" of 9-11 were far greater in scale than the Pearl Harbor attack.

So, who are we to second-guess Congress?

There is no war, just military action.

If Congress had Declared War, there would be no confusion about "don't we know there's a war going on?"

By the way, for the Constitution illiterates -- of which there are many on FR -- ONLY the Congress has the Power to Declare War. No other branch of government has that Power.

[don-o]

I'm getting mighty tired of this "don't you know there's a war on?" excuse as a tactic of criminalizing every Tom, Dick, & Harry, all the better to advance the aims of Big Brother.

Romulus, old friend, you usually are spot on in insisting on a factual approch - at least on the religious threads.

Fact of the matter is that this dimwit should have noticed that getting to the plane last Friday was a bit different than it was on 9/10.

There are men in uniform carrying weapons all around. Even the dumbest Georgia Bulldog fan might have asked another dumb Georgia Bulldog fan. "What are these uniformed men carrying weapons here at the busiest airport in America"

The answer is the DGBF weighed the odds. He knew full well what he was doing. I'll wager he was in pre-game mode (moderately tanked) and with impaired judgement made a DGBF conclusion: "I can pull this off. And what a great story to tell the other DGBF's."

DGBF = Dumb Georgia Bulldog Fan.

Their name is Legion

[AndyJackson]

For a certain species of "conservative", there's never enough law 'n' order

And I am getting sick and tired of hearing from them on a forum that claims to represnet those who want constitutionally limited government. This thread would be pulled if I tried to say what I really think about these folks.