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To: Joe NYC who wrote (54970)	9/13/2001 3:31:04 AM
From: jamok99	Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: <<Anyway, the response should be proportional to the level of threat, not limited to any arbitrary standard. Suppose this country is under some threat (suppose some killer infectious disease), and based on the public health experts, the only way to overcome is not to have a great number of people in the same room at the same time. But right to assemble great number of people in the same room fall under the freedom of assembly (which I am not sure if it is explicitly or implicitly stated either in constitution or some law). Don't you think it would make sense to temporarily suspend this law, until the infectious disease is overcome? That to me is a proportional response to the threat at hand.>> Yes, I think you point to the upcoming dilemma about where the security/freedom balance line should be drawn. It's a very ambiguous area in terms of the balance of maintaining freedom vs. ensuring security - a problem which the Israelis have been struggling with for a long time. I don't envy the choices that policy makers will need to face and evaluate in the near future. I hope Bush relies more on folks like Colin Powell than Condolezza Rice, the former of which seems to me to be in close contact with practical realities, and the latter of which, from her speech at the Republican convention last summer, offered little but cliches and cheerleading, and has yet to prove herself a person of substance. Regards, Jamok