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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (267578)1/8/2006 7:13:18 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 1574050
 
On the first half of your post, you sound just like my brother. He is a lawyer and he said almost the identical thing you did.

On the second half of your post, I think it is frivolous because there are so many important things we SHOULD be discussing at the Supreme Court level and yet we seem to be focused on stupid things like the pledge of allegiance and the ten commandments. Doesn't the ACLU have anything better to do than to worry about stupid shit like that? Why don't they focus on real issues like the status of non-combatant detainees, the lawful extent of wire-tapping, war powers on civilian surveillance, government perusal of private mail from overseas?

Those are the issues that fundamentally impact citizen's rights and we should be debating how much of those freedoms we are willing to give up in a time of war and what the limits we should place on those things. For instance, I'd like to see aggressive war time capabilities put in place, but with time limits on them which Congress must vote on every 3 or 6 months. Anyway, that seems more important to me than worrying about whether the courtroom has Ten Commandments up on the wall, which by the way are a good set of rules to live by for any person of any religion.
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