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by rozmary on September 24th, 2006

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How can the American legal system, which is so devoted to protecting individual rights, justify itself morally if it jeopardizes, through its own rules, the right of law-abiding citizens to personal peace and security?

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  • by LynfromNM on September 24th, 2006

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    It can't. However, if the majority of Americans continues to express its concern for safety over liberty, we deserve neither (as Ben Franklin said over 200 years ago). Americans are sloughing off their rights resignedly because of the fear of terrorism. We are allowing our phones, homes and places of business to be invaded because it is perceived as "patriotic" to give in. We have gone through this before -- in the early 1950s, for example, when Joe McCarthy fanned the fear of Communism to such a degree that people were being arrested and blacklisted for the merest suspicion that they were affiliated with the Communist Party. They were denied employment and ostracized. Who was it who said that patriotism is the last bastion of cowardice? I have always considered myself patriotic in the sense that I believe in the civil and legal rights of individuals and my country professes to uphold those rights. The minute we feel threatened though we (Americans)seem to retreat into fascism. In my mind, when we allow government to supercede our "inalienable rights", the bad guys have won.

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  • by Nevermind on August 9th, 2009

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    The intention of this reality is not peace, but division and competition.

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  • by illimitato_hustla on October 27th, 2006

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    George Bush..... nothing further necessary

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