Supreme Court Rules on Bus Searches

AP via iWon.com ^ | June 17, 2002 | Gina Holland

[Tuor]

Like I said before, I'm seriously considering giving up my US citizenship and fleeing to a small caribbean island, watching Amerika become a police state from afar.

1) There's nowhere to run. You'd only be delaying the inevitible.

2) I'm not running. This is my home. I am an American. Even if the majority of Americans forget what they are, I will not. I will stay and face what must be faced. I swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and that oath is still binding as far as I'm concerned.

Tuor

Give me liberty or give me death.

[Pern]

You're right. I shouldn't think of fleeing, but what else is there to do? When push comes to shove, the vast majority of the sheeple will blindly follow. Those that don't will be labled 'extremists' or 'militia members', and will be murdered by the state to preserve order.

I gave the same oath in 1987 when I joined the Navy, but frankly, the snakes in Washington aren't worthy of my loyalty.

[Tuor]

Those that don't will be labled 'extremists' or 'militia members', and will be murdered by the state to preserve order.

You're right. We'll most likely end up dead. But then, we'll all end up dead someday anyway. I'd rather die a man than live a slave, even a happy slave.

Also, remember that your oath wasn't actually to those totalitarians in Washington, but to a piece of paper and to the ideals it espouses.

Tuor

Give me liberty or give me death.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I defer to your expertise.

I am humbled, Professor. I'll try not to let it go to my head. When will you grace us with the answer?