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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (9504)	10/14/2001 3:04:39 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 23153

The Constitution doesn't flex, bend or turn various parts on or off to meet some notion of "clear and present needs of civilization." That is precisely the point. The Constitution describes permanent principles that cannot and will not be undermined by short-term emotionalism. Your facts are wrong about history - the US was targeted directly in WW2 on land in Hawaii and just off our shores up and down both coasts. Many merchant seamen died in sight of land. We rightly see that internment of Japanese-descent people arbitrarily then was wrong. My point, that you have missed, is that as soon as you start tearing up parts of the Constitution to suit your immediate evaluation of a threat, you should tear it all up and throw it away. It is worthless. The terrorists have won because we will run the same kind of dictatorship they advocate. In other words, it won't be there to protect you when I find a compelling reason (and the tyrannical majority you believe should prevail) to haul you and Warp off to a concentration camp for presenting a clear and present danger to the American way of life. Not so nice to be on the sharp end of the stick, is it? Goldwater summed himself up long ago when he said that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Fortunately the American people - the majority - decided that extremism is the antithesis of liberty and voted accordingly. Maybe you should push to have your views put to a public referendum. If the majority you assert really exists you won't have trouble getting several million signatures in a hurry. I look forward to seeing the first draft. ;<) Enough fussing, just wanted to offer some counterpoints. I do find praise for a communist dictatorship truly disturbing, and I think a majority of Americans would agree. PS I have lived in places where warring groups did try to kill me in the course of attacking a group in the area where I lived. I never wanted to see everyone from the hostile group mistreated in any way. OTOH, their leaders are now sitting in The Hague on trial where they belong while the people they victimized are rebuilding a civil society.

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