about giving up certain freedoms in return for security. In response to
this, many throw the Franklin quote. The response is that it's a different
time. the counter is to point out the attrocities of that time. The counter
is to say they were not the same. counter. counter. counter.
The massacring of indian tribes was a crime on par with any suicide bombing
today. Could the indians have given up freedoms for security? Should they
have? Look at what freedoms existed then and now. We're more free than ever
and we hold things as personal freedoms that were not even thought of years
ago. I want freedom of privacy. I don't want people knowing my buying
habits, what's in my home or what color underwear I'm wearing. I don't want
people coming into my home looking for a terrorist, drugs, guns or whatever.
Years ago, these 'rights' were totally unknown. Franklin had no concept of
the freedoms we have today and if he did, he's probably laugh at them.
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From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:39 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: cat stevens
> In once way you are correct. I did not take indian or
> french attacks into
> account. On the other hand, these were not attacks in
> urban areas targetting
> 'civilians'. When was there ever a case of an indian with
> a barrel of
> gunpowder coming into the center of a city to blow up the
> stage? When was
> the last time you heard it in Israel (yesterday actually).
I suppose the indiscriminate slaughter of entire tribes of indians by
white settlers doesn't count.
s. isaac dealey 954.927.5117
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