On May 17, 2006, at 9:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I would prefer they screen immigrants and airport passengers.
I never
agreed to screening Americans' phone calls or email.
Nor did I.
In other words, I have thought government reactions ever since 9/11
have been
excessive and really do not agree with them. I'd rather live with
the risk of
terror than lose civil liberties. I have always felt that way.
Just as I live daily with the risk of being killed on the highway.
Absolutely. We make a risk assessment every time we get in a car and
drive somewhere. I'm far more likely to be killed driving to the
grocery store a mile away than by most other hazards, but I don't
stop driving. The current government is very authoritarian, and
that is certainly a very bad thing for the USA. Every time I turn on
the TV or look at the newspaper some govt honcho is giving a spiel
about preserving our freedom, which is just code words for taking
away more bits and pieces of that freedom we once had.
Safety can be brought at too high a price. Especially since the
feeling of
safety tends to be an illusion anyway.
There is no such thing as safety. It is, and always has been and
illusion. I don't need a govt that is a surrogate parent. I had two
good ones, and now that they're gone I don't need any replacements.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Yup.
Bob
