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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (679253)	4/13/2005 6:12:46 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

If you sign up for the slippery slope of the steady erosion of liberty, then you have given up on freedom and the American experiment. You might as well join the enemy (and there are many, of all stripes) because you are playing into their hands. On their own, Islamic fundamentalist terrorists have no where near the power to change our society... they are counting on us to do it to ourselves. bin Laden made it perfectly clear in the video he released immediately after 9-11: "The American government and the west will lead the American people into unbearable Hell and a choking life. Freedom and human rights in America are doomed...." It is always the natural tendency of politicians and bureaucrats to seek to exploit temporary crisis, to expand permanently their powers over the public. "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." --- Edmund Burke "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." --- Edmund Burke (1784) "The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --- Justice Brandeis "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad...." --- James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798. "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." --- James Madison, 4th U.S. President, Political Observations, 1795