cdude1034 said:
I won't even arguing your other points because frankly I find it's not worth it. This one however, I find most intriguing. This argument by itself shows the massive amounts of what was wrong with America after 9/11. It's not about having anything to hide, it's about not allowing the government to blatantly abuse the power we give it. Even if you're not planting a bomb, what's to stop a douchebag Homeland Security employee from going through your text messages for the hell of it? Or your wife from getting her buddy from looking up your phone records and bank account? I'd rather live free and with the .001% chance of another attack than live scared of my government watching my every move with only a .0005% chance. Those who sacrafice freedom for safety deserve neither. |
Minus your spelling error, you couldn't have stated how I feel any more clearly.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
