Does it bother you, for some reason, that the logic of extra scrutiny of those that dislike our government is a good security measure?

Do you think, for one moment, that those that wish this country harm are completely silent until they attack? (you very well may believe that, which, in your head, would mean that anyone critical of the administartion would actually be a patriot for questioning it, in which case all a terrorists need do is loudly question the government and they would be beyond suspicion, but I am getting into convoluted thought patterns worthy of the most rabid conspiracy theorists, and OT)

I would bet that you are against “profiling” for security porposes, aren’t you, comrade?

If you can be forbidden to ride in an airplain for thinking Bush is a dictator and saying it out loud, then he IS a dictator. If you can be legally restricted from ordinary rights because you are critical of Bush & Co., then there is nothing left to fight for. The America we knew and loved is gone. It looks like the people on this site hate that old America where freedom was the norm and not a special right for a privileged few.

I don’t want to live in a totalitarian society. If you were smart you wouldn’t either.

A) We do not live in a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic

B) There is NOT a dictatorship in this country, evidenced first by the fact that you are still allowed access to a computer, and

C) If you don’t undertstand what the word “fascism” means please don’t use it here until you do.

Now….what civil rights has the big bad givernment taken away from you maria?

Before you ask if I think it is ok for the government to target people that are critical of the administration, let me point out a major item about the stupidity of that question;

Radical islamic terrorists are critical of the government, logic dictates that others that are critical of the government may very well be allies of those terrorists, or at the least could be sympathetic to terrorist organizations grievances, if not the actual causes, so safety, security and common sense demand that critics of the administration, any administration, especially in war time, be given extra scrutiny.

So contrary to being an “enemy of civil liberties” sonja, I am someone that realizes we are at war, and knows that there are going to be, of necessity, sacrifices to be made, and if I have to wait a little longer at the airport, so be it, because it sure beats being dead from hijackers.

And to head off your next attack, no, I don’t feel bad for those people that are detained for their views…..and here is what I would tell anyone that found themselves in that position;

Nobody said freedom of speech is free, and if you wish to have the government not pull you aside and give you extra scrutiny, remove your head from your nether regions and be a true defender of freedom, and not an unknowing accomplice of our enemies.”

ACLU is nothing more than an open cash register sucking in our tax dollars. It has to stop.

Maybe we can sue the ACLU and force them to pay our outrageous legal fees bankrupting them out of existence.

It is very telling that this doesn’t bother you at all. I have always believed that people who hate the ACLU also hate civil liberties and are the enemies of freedom. You are making the case for me better than I can make it myself.