[exodus]

To: Teacher317; The Ghost of Richard Nixon
"...He who trades freedom for security deserves neither.
For my country to follow the path of action recommended by TGORN
is for my country to transmogrify into some grotesque caricature of itself,
unrecognizable, unlovable and (ultimately) unfree to the vast majority."
# 69 by Phil V.
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The Patriot Act did just that; it took "a little" of our freedom
in order to provide safety for our people.
Don't bother saying "we are at war," that is plainly a lie.

A war has someone to be at war with.
A war doesn't worry about offending the same people
we're supposed to be at war with.

[stryker]

Keep pounding this point home to everyone that will listen, Exodus. I am tired of wearing a bullseye, being told that it is not only a possibility but an inevitability that the American people will be attacked with a weapon of mass destruction. 9/11 and what I have learned since--the number of perpertrators from Saudi Arabia, the number of schools throughout the Islamic world teaching fundamental Islam, the bizarre news coverage of their television, the purposeful killing of children by children whose families then accept payment from the Saudis, Iranians and Iraqis. I have no doubt who the enemy is, nor whether we are at total war. We just need to wake up the public who will in turn wake up the Congress.