Todd-'o'-Vision
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Do you have freedom when you have security?
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While it is possible to be free and secure I think it is hard to have all of both.
We give up some freedoms to obtain security. Some of it is easy - we drive on the right side of the road, for example.
We give up security to have freedom - There isn't a policeman on every corner checking your identity card and frisking you for illegal weapons.
I fear - and will fight - what the current administration feels is necessary for us to give up in order to be secure. Our country works as well as it does because we hae constitutional rights. We may argue about precisely what they are and how they should be administered, but we must never give them up. George Bush and his minions have no right to know what library books I read, what movies I watch, or what my spouse and I do alone and with each other in the privacy of our home - no matter how much they might want to know it.
Are we less secure today? No more so than people who live in most other countries in the world. Ask somebody who has been wounded in African civil wars, lives in Israel or what inadequately substitutes for Palestine, or has suffered through the troubles in Belfast.
The New Hampshire license plates say Live Free or Die! It's a bit extreme, but it makes sense to me.
We give up some freedom for security, we give up some security for freedom. The trick is finding the balance - and not letting people like John Ashcroft and George Bush bully us into their point of view just because they and their predecessors believe in buying and selling the heart and soul of the United States and have bored millions of us into believing it just doesn't make all that much of a difference.
I fear that the simple freedom to write and post messages like these may soon be lost in the name of "security."
We give up some freedoms to obtain security. Some of it is easy - we drive on the right side of the road, for example.
We give up security to have freedom - There isn't a policeman on every corner checking your identity card and frisking you for illegal weapons.
I fear - and will fight - what the current administration feels is necessary for us to give up in order to be secure. Our country works as well as it does because we hae constitutional rights. We may argue about precisely what they are and how they should be administered, but we must never give them up. George Bush and his minions have no right to know what library books I read, what movies I watch, or what my spouse and I do alone and with each other in the privacy of our home - no matter how much they might want to know it.
Are we less secure today? No more so than people who live in most other countries in the world. Ask somebody who has been wounded in African civil wars, lives in Israel or what inadequately substitutes for Palestine, or has suffered through the troubles in Belfast.
The New Hampshire license plates say Live Free or Die! It's a bit extreme, but it makes sense to me.
We give up some freedom for security, we give up some security for freedom. The trick is finding the balance - and not letting people like John Ashcroft and George Bush bully us into their point of view just because they and their predecessors believe in buying and selling the heart and soul of the United States and have bored millions of us into believing it just doesn't make all that much of a difference.
I fear that the simple freedom to write and post messages like these may soon be lost in the name of "security."
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