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I'm not willing to stop driving my car, nor do I think that forbidding alcohol consumption is reasonable, although both might make my life safer#; leaving another person in 'permanent limbo' does not seem resonable to me either, and subjects our country to justifiable criticism of hypocrisy and 'morals of convenience.' Examining selected containers arriving on US shores, keeping up high-tech surveillance, improving 'intelligence' with more agents on the ground and coordinating inter-agency communication (and even intra-agency) -- these seem logical and likely to yield good results. Allowing the 'Gitmo-ees' to become 'limbo martyrs' seems counter-productive.
Very well said, Debbi, thank you for that.
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On a lighter note: --- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snippage>"...We should all then, like the Quakers, live without an order of priests, moralize for ourselves, follow the oracle of conscience, and say nothing about what no man can understand, nor therefore believe." Jefferson letter to John Adams, 1813
Hmm, so I should change my sometime sig to "Heretic Lutheran Deist With Overtones Of Quakerism Maru"? :) That's a little too long, I fear...
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin
Amen.
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