On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, you wrote:
> >Snip
> The Framers didn't have to worry about Islamic madmen in jets flying into high
> rise buildings. The Framers didn't anticipate nuclear weapons.
> Joel
Every time some zealot wishes to protect us from some threat , be it
Nazis,Japanese, communists, KKK Kluckers crime ect, the first call that goes
iut is to either give the government more power or to limit the rights of the
people.. The excuse given is always ," the framers of the Constitution
couldn't have envisioned such a threat." Bull Pucky! The framers didn't have to
envision all furuer threats to us. They realized that the rights of the people
are timeless and that any threat was transitory. The permanet threat is the
willingness to give up those rights for fear of the threat of the moment. Do
that and the Muslim fanitacs have won. Benjamin franklin put it wishly," Those
who would give up Liberty for security deserve neither Liberty or security.
The plain truth is that the same government that is so blithly asking us to
hand over our rights and the airline industry bear a large measure of
responsibility in the WTC disaster. After it became fashionable to high jack
airliners federal marshals were put on planes and airport security was
increased. After flight 103 airport security was really beefed up. What
happened? Simple the airlines didn't like paying their part of the cost of
security and government dropped the sky marshal program to save a few bucks. Do
you really think that a bunch of towel heads armed with knives or bomb threats
could have overcome a well armed and trained sky marshal? Airport security
followed the same sad fate as the sky marshal program. Instead of hiring
intelligent movitivate personnel the program became nothing more than a
political correct hiring program to giving well paying jobs to people based on
their inability to get another job.
Yet, with this sad history of government failure and greed there are those who
in the name of security propose to hand over the rights, that generations of
Americans have shed their blood to protect, to the same government that set us
up for WTC. Personally, I'll throw my lot in with Ben Franklin.
Lee
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