"The Fool" wrote: > The entire reason hitler > didn't dare go into switzerland was the number of guns they had.
I think the cushy banking arrangements the Swiss had with the Nazis had as much if not more to do with that. > > When the government starts making moral judgments about your email and > > surfing habits, then they have gone too far and you have something to > > complain about. > > Who says you'll know when they've made judgements about you. You just > get put in a database of people to be...dealt with. People to disapear, > or have fatal accidents, or... Can you back this up right now with facts and figures? > > Personally, I am willing to give up some of my "perceived" freedoms to > > protect my children and the ones I love from more terrorist attacks. I > am > > sure that there are those out there that would disagree with this, but > I am > > also sure that there are 7000+ people's families and friends in New > York and > > worldwide that WOULD agree with this. > > But giving up your rights is exactly what the terrorist want. You want > them to win. Bzzzzt. Wrong. Looking at the apparent motives of the terrorists involved in the attack on 9/11 (assuming, as the evidence seems to indicate, that they're connected with Bin Laden), they don't care about our freedoms or our nation, except that we are (a) stationing infidel soldiers in Saudi Arabia, site of Mecca and Medina, (b) we're, according to them, engaged in a war of destruction aimed at wiping Islam from the Earth and (c) supporters of Israel. > > At this point, two weeks after the terrorist attacks, you have to ask > > yourself what is more important, freedom or security? Guess what, > terrorist > > in the US at this very moment have the very same freedoms that we do. > Are > > you willing to temporarily give up some of those freedoms to help > ensure the > > safety of your family and children? If you are not, I think that I > would be > > worried. > > No. Because once rights are gone, they never come back (cept alcohol). Well, the right to meet privately with Blacks was taken away in Alabama during the 1950's and 60's. I know this, because my father almost got arrested for this when he was in college. No one in Alabama cares about that now. Rights of Habeas Corpus and some free speech were temporarily removed during the Civil War and WWII, and they're back now. I could probably list another 30-40 rights we enjoy now that we didn't even a scant 40 years ago. Those 3 examples (alcohol, and the two I listed) are a good indication that your claim is false. Distrust of government is good, unreasoning paranoia is foolish. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots." - Thomas Jefferson, 1787 >
