And a fellow who got it right 2500 years ago.... The people should fight for their law as for their walls. Heraklitus
John McCreery wrote:
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America's Choice - Freedom or Fear? News Type: Opinion — Sat May 13, 2006 1:11 AM JST
Brad Farris
Should we be concerned? Of course.
Should we do everything within our power to prevent such an attack, no matter what the cost? Absolutely not.
We should do everything in our power to prevent such an attack, but absolutely not at the expense of our freedoms and civil liberties. Those freedoms were bought and paid for by men and women over the past 200 years in many ways, including making the ultimate sacrifice for you and I. We owe them in equal measure to that which they have paid for our freedom. We owe our children the ability to live in the most free and open society on the planet, not simply some country that used to be free. We must understand that the most important battle we can fight is the battle for our freedoms, and that we must choose to fight that fight over all others.
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