You take your freedoms and liberties, "America", for granted at your own peril.
Is not laughable, IMHO, It wasn't America's intrinsicness that prevented us from traveling further down the wrong road, the many times we've started on it. It was good people, speaking out. That's not a "sure thing", if history has taught us anything. The civil war part is debatable, but not the general sentiment. IMO. =] -- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > That's laughable on both counts. Thousands of Japanese-Americans were > interned during WWII, their loss of rights went WAY beyond anything that has > happened here since 9/11. As far as what Bush actually did, a lot of things > have unraveled in the last 2-3 years, both by design and through > investigation and disclosure. Either way this election went, we were headed > in the same direction. > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Gruss wrote: > >> In my opinion our country was on the verge of losing all of the >> freedom and liberties your statement takes for granted. >> >> In other words, we made the right choice this time but we made the >> wrong choice 2 times in a row and it cost us. The Justice Department >> is in tatters, frankly. It may take 20 years to fix. The Bush >> presidency shook our democracy to it's foundations starting with the >> Supreme Court taking an active role in his election. >> >> Democracy and liberty are always in jeopardy and vigilance is key to >> ensuring they aren't overthrow. >> >> IMO, we've come closer to losing them in the last 8 years than since >> the civil war. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:279419 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
