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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (148851)	10/24/2004 2:31:00 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No, I don't expect that terrorists to "play by the rules". The choice is simple: you are either a criminal, or a combatant in a war. Terrorism, like it or not, looks like criminal acts. Here's the nut of the matter: I don't approve of any administration cooking up new laws in secret. It amazes me that the same people who say we are standing up for freedom and liberty, in this war on terror, have no problem whatsoever accepting that the Bush administration arbitrarily made new laws which give them the power to restrict liberty without due process. Essentially at the whim of the president. Sounds more like totalitarianism than democracy. What's worse, they did this without any approval from Congress. Real conservatives do not accept this. Read the article cited in full and you'll see military lawyers don't even accept this. I hate to dig up this quote because its used so often its become trite, but to me, a real conservative, this has meaning: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin