From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Have you thought it amusing that the conservatives are talking about
trusting the government and the liberals are talking about not trusting the
government.

Bob Lewis

"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>>> I was wondering when Patrick Henry would put in his appearance 
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>> It fits the situation.
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> I was just throwing a little levity on the thread. 
>
> But, now that I think of it, there is another viewpoint here that also
> relates to liberty. If we prevent our government from using tools to
> monitor the terrorist threat efficiently (as we did pre 9/11) then people
> die. Ordinary people that just went to work or school engaging the pursuit
> of happiness and enjoying their liberty to do so. Their liberty is then
> over permanently and if it happens often enough those that aren't killed
> in any given attack have also forfeited their liberty, or at least their
> ability to enjoy it free from fear.
>
> To preserve that liberty the government is asking for (and has been
> granted so far) the right to engage in clandestine observations of what
> they consider to be suspect activities. I just don't have the degree of
> distrust that you do - my default feeling is that if they glomb onto
> something that looks suspicious, they'll look, if they don't see anything,
> they'll stop looking.
>
> Your outlook appears to be that they are going to start looking first
> without any justification on their part. I just don't see it that way.
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