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Originally Posted by alias Because we are at war and at times there may be a necessity to prevent an attack. | No.
War has rules too.
There is no standard by which rules get thrown out in time of war.
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Originally Posted by alias Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean everyone is. You're more afraid of your government than you are of the enemy. Who is the enemy foundit? | No. I am not more afraid of my government.
The point is that the government SHOULD NOT INSPIRE ANY fear in the citizen.
If some miscellaneous woman off the street called you "stupid", and your wife called you "stupid", which would you treat with more reaction?
If a kid at your local school was caught doing pot, and your kid was caught doing pot, which would inspire greater concern?
What the other kid is doing IS NOT AN EXCUSE for your own government behaving badly.
OUR government should be following the rules.
I can understand why "(Gay marriage) is a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish."
-- Jon Stewart
"Please don't judge others by your own standards."
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