Originally Posted by DVPGSR
Again there is absolutely nothing that has been done to violate any American under the Constitution. You are choosing freedom but not security. Without security there is not freedom.
You also forgot to answer my question.
I didn't forget. It was so absurd that I assumed it was rhetorical.
The answer is that I choose liberty and security at the same time, as the framers and forefathers intended. I choose a government of checks and balances. I choose not to allow Bush to morph the presidency into an autocracy without being questioned. I choose to speak, and write, and think, and disagree, and not be scrutinzed by the government for doing so.
Platitudes like "freedom isn't free" make me feel a little sick. The use of a silly expression that merely sounds deeply philosophical to explain away transgressions and crimes is unacceptable to me. It minimizes a complex idea to the point that its unrecognizable.