Amen
- Richard
Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, you wrote:
> > >Snip
> > The Framers didn't have to worry about Islamic madmen in jets flying into high
> > rise buildings. The Framers didn't anticipate nuclear weapons.
> > Joel
>
> Every time some zealot wishes to protect us from some threat , be it
> Nazis,Japanese, communists, KKK Kluckers crime ect, the first call that goes
> iut is to either give the government more power or to limit the rights of the
> people.. The excuse given is always ," the framers of the Constitution
> couldn't have envisioned such a threat." Bull Pucky! The framers didn't have to
> envision all furuer threats to us. They realized that the rights of the people
> are timeless and that any threat was transitory. The permanet threat is the
> willingness to give up those rights for fear of the threat of the moment. Do
> that and the Muslim fanitacs have won. Benjamin franklin put it wishly," Those
> who would give up Liberty for security deserve neither Liberty or security.
>
> The plain truth is that the same government that is so blithly asking us to
> hand over our rights and the airline industry bear a large measure of
> responsibility in the WTC disaster. After it became fashionable to high jack
> airliners federal marshals were put on planes and airport security was
> increased. After flight 103 airport security was really beefed up. What
> happened? Simple the airlines didn't like paying their part of the cost of
> security and government dropped the sky marshal program to save a few bucks. Do
> you really think that a bunch of towel heads armed with knives or bomb threats
> could have overcome a well armed and trained sky marshal? Airport security
> followed the same sad fate as the sky marshal program. Instead of hiring
> intelligent movitivate personnel the program became nothing more than a
> political correct hiring program to giving well paying jobs to people based on
> their inability to get another job.
>
> Yet, with this sad history of government failure and greed there are those who
> in the name of security propose to hand over the rights, that generations of
> Americans have shed their blood to protect, to the same government that set us
> up for WTC. Personally, I'll throw my lot in with Ben Franklin.
>
> Lee
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