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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: haqihana who wrote (6301)3/22/2006 12:36:02 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Total security is a mythconception. A society has to choose the level of freedoms and accept the adjustment to security that are caused by it. It the pre Al Qaeda world flower power and the sixties were possible. Beginning roughly fifteen years ago, the openness of our society was used against us. We can choose being led to slaughter because of our insistence on excessive freedoms. We can choose to balance security needs with freedoms in recognition that the world is not as safe as we had lulled ourselves into believing it was.

"Through out history, the poor have always hated the rich. They envy the accomplishments, and wealth that we worked, and fought for and wanted the same but were not willing to make the same sacrifices."

"For the love of money is the root of all evil."

Those who wish equal results without equal effort are spreading evil.

"Those that whine about our power are the lazy, malcontents, that pity themselves without realizing that they are the ones that brought their lifestyle down on themselves."

We are dangerously close to 50% of Americans not paying any taxes. Once we cross that tipping point, the slothful will demand ever more free services.
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