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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (244681)	10/11/2007 1:02:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Michael, you do realize, don't you, that if you want to continue to live free you have a whole lot more to fear from your own government than you do from terrorists or foreign powers? Is this an axiom or does it require evidence concerning the extent of threat from terrorists or foreign powers? Mike saw the Twin Towers fall. I think you'll have a problem convincing him he has relatively nothing to fear from terrorists. There were some very good reasons why the founding fathers were obsessed with limiting the power of the government and why they weren't willing to assume self restraint and good motives. Those reasons are as valid today as they were back then. Sure they are. But the Founders didn't poo-poo the threat from foreign intervention - in their day, of Great Britain and France and the other European powers. It was one of the Founders, John Adams, who passed the Sedition Act.