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To: tejek who wrote (719924)	12/28/2005 12:34:46 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

the right to privacy of every American citizen is spelled out in the Constitution Exactly where?

To: tejek who wrote (719924)	12/28/2005 1:08:06 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

rejek, The right to privacy is not a part of the Constitution, at least not in so many words. The right to privacy would best be seen in the 9th Amendment, which basically says that just because a right is not in the Constitution, does not necessarily mean that it does not exist.

To: tejek who wrote (719924)	12/28/2005 1:12:48 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<I am a Constitutionalist and an American. I believe in a citizen's right to privacy. Why don't you?>> zzzzzzzzzzzzz....(pseudo-libertarian Leninism is always hard to stay awake for.) Obviously the right to LIFE is not important to you. The Al Quaida Bill of Rights has priority. I can see the domestic enemy being afraid of being found out, however. There are still a few people around who have trouble believing that a group of people can lie that much.

To: tejek who wrote (719924)	12/28/2005 1:21:26 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

tejek, Citizens have rights, but have to acknowledge the importance of security in the time of war. I'm not talking about just the Iraq war, but the one that is in the works when the radical Islamists decide that we should bow down to Allah, which is a god only because Mohammed decided to elevate the idol of the moon god to such highnness. I will give up my privacy for security any day of the week. My user name is more American than any white European name. Haqihana is the southern Arapaho name for wolf, which was bestowed on me by several members of that tribe that I worked with in Oklahoma. Born in Kansas, raised in Texas, and living in Florida, makes me American as anyone can get, especially with American Indian as part of my blood line. I asked you those questions because of your refusal to recognize the danger lurking in the underground movement or radical Islamic terrorists. If you don't want to take every possible tactic to defeat these people, makes me think that you are in cahoots with them. You don't know what a "real American" is, because you certainly aren't one.

To: tejek who wrote (719924)	12/28/2005 4:45:51 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

People that have done nothing that would be considered to be against the law, security of the nation, or moral fiber, have nothing to fear from the government. Either you are paranoid, or have something to hide. Boy, how things change. It wasn't more than a few years ago that it was the Conservatives who were fearful of big government, Big Brother, intruding into private lives, into bedrooms, into personal conversations and decisions. They roundly repudiated the argument that if you had done nothing wrong you had nothing to fear when it applied to proposed gun control laws. Groups like the Freemen in Montana pointed out that an ever vigilent population protecting the privacy of citizens must be protected at all costs. Nothing overruled the individual rights of the citizen, certainly not big government's intrusion. The conservatives repudiated the rationales argued by the lefties for more government oversight and echoed that the rights of the individual are paramount. Perhaps the issues involving scrutiny of citizen's activities are justified by current threats, but I sometimes find it remarkable that some citizens most fearful of "big government" seem now most willing to buy into the arguments they loathed before.