12-25-2005, 09:01 PM
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Oh lookie the sky is falling the sky is falling!
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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
Yea, try to scare everyone.. WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE unless we give the almighty President "wartime" powers to do whatever he wants.
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No one said "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!" The "wartime" powers given to him were given to him freely and readily. You're over reacting yet again. This is the whole reason behind my last post. (By the way are you chicken little or henny penny, I can't remember?)
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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
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.
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You voted for a congressman who did just that. Perhaps you should rethink your vote next time. But of course no one gave President Bush unlimited powers. You're over reacting again. (I see a theme developing here.)
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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
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.
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You ever read history books? History didn't start with George Bush being President. Go back and check out all the times the Government stepped in and broadened their power. Check out Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, Carter, Johnson, Bush I, geeze HD do you need me to spoon feed it to you?
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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
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?
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You are. America is still great. You may not think so, but hey... you seem to have a penchant for over reacting.
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Originally Posted by Hard-Driver";p="
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.
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No powers in this government are unchecked. If this were true, then why doesn't Bush abolish congress and send the Supreme Court home? He can't. Why would he want to? You've been drinking too much of the liberal cool aid HD.
It's just a pine cone that fell on your head Chicken Little. The sky isn't falling... really. You're worried over nothing.
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