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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus";p="
To all those who are doing their utmost to tie the hands of Bush and the Government from protecting us, keep in mind:
1. When we have another attack, you'll be screaming at Bush and the Government for not knowing about it in advance.
2. Civil rights mean nothing to a corpse.
3. Things are never as bleak as you paint them to be. You remind me of Chicken Little warning everyone the sky is falling.
This country will survive this season of it's history just fine. It has endured far worse. Relax. Unwad your panties and just chill.
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Yea, try to scare everyone.. WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE unless we give the almighty President "wartime" powers to do whatever he wants.
First, this "wartime" call is BS, we have been fighting terrorists for decades, like the "war on drugs" the "war on terror" will be never ending. So I am not giving unlimited powers to an enemy that is so ambigous that we can never say when they are defeated.
Second, The odds of dying in a terrorist attack are way lower than so many other odds. So why not have all civil rights revoked to fight drunk drivers. Civil rights are not negotiable.
Third, Speaking of chicken little. We had 8 years between the only two terrorist attacks ever in this country. Yet it is justification for destroying the freedom that makes America great. WHO is overreacting?
Fourth, I am willing to die for American freedom. This mean I am willing to take a minutely higher risk of being killed, than I am in destroying those freedoms. Giving unchecked powers to government is a slippery slope that I am not willing to dance just over the edge of.