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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (143273)9/11/2001 6:35:47 PM
From: fingolfen  Read Replies (3) of 186894
 
Meanwhile we will get weaker and weaker...we have little control, especially of our borders. Easy to drive right in from Canada or take a plane from where-ever... If you get picked on you get a Lawyer... We are such an easy target now it's pathetic.

So what are the options? Close the national borders and permanently garrison them? Garrison the state borders? I'm sorry, but I don't want to see panic lead to effective martial law in the U.S. If that happens, then the terrorists have already won. We're a free society. That comes with certain risks and responsibilities. Unfortunately, events like today are one of those risks.

Let's say we give up some of our freedoms today to take measures to allegedly prevent something like this from happening again... What happens when the next bright individual finds a way around that and we're hit hard again? Do we then give up MORE freedoms??? ... and again more??? The minute we start giving up the rights of the individual in response to an event like this is the minute America surrenders to terrorism...

... and if that happens then America effectively and collectively spits on the grave of the innocent victims of today's atrocity.
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