[exodus]

To: dead
I'd much rather trust my freedom to Ashcroft, Bush, Cheney and company than to the sort of folks who decry that some people must be inconvenienced for the good of the many instead of the other way around. They don't seem to understand that THEY are a large part of the problem...
# 3 by trebb

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Yes, THEY don't understand that the freedom our soldiers have historically fought to defend has now become outdated.

THEY don't understand that it's perfectly alright to have a dictator, as long as the dictator is a Republican.

[paulklenk]

In what way is Bush a dictator? I'm no Bush-bot, but I'd really like to know what he's done to deserve that epithet.

[headsonpikes]

Was Sulla a Roman 'neo'? ;^)

[185JHP]

To paraphrase Brandeis: "(Some of) the greatest dangers to liberty lie in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding."

[christine]

that is very dangerous thinking. republicans are not always going to be in office (not that it makes all that much difference anyway). all americans and politicians would do well to keep this in mind:

"The key to understanding the American system is to imagine that you have the power to make nearly any law you want. But your worst enemy will be the one to enforce it." ~ Rick Cook

[Abundy]

Why bother - I'm reading the replies on this thread which demonstrate the extreme partisanship, lack of foresight, clear misunderstanding of history and utterly abject lack of common sense on the part of those who think a bunch of executive branch 'crats deciding who is an enemy combatant without judicial oversight and absolute suspension of civil rights is a good thing.

What amazes me is that I'll bet most of these people would have screamed loudly, demanding armed insurrection if this had been proposed under Clinton/Reno.

Mr. Franklin, we failed to keep our Republic. Our deepest apologies to you and every individual who gave his life in defense of the ideal to which you and the rest of the Founding Fathers gave birth. We have killed it.