CC, as one vet to another, thank you for your service to our country.
No need for thanks....I did it because I believe in the ideals this country was founded on and was willing to give my life for them as many have before me.
yeah seriously. if the FF's had to face the type of threat we do today, i am more than certain that old ben wouldnt have said that.
Conjecture. Fact: he said what he said and the FF's believed in what they believed in. Thank God for that, or there wouldn't be U.S.A. today.
nope
the times he lived in are as different from today as Moses' world was from franklins. Brains evolve and adapt for a reason....
Granted the times are different, but I don't view that as an excuse to whore out the ideals our country were founded on.
I personally believe in those ideals and think they're just as relevent today as they were back then....perhaps even more so.
Just because we're being tested as never before is not a reason to turn our backs on our ideals. There's been enough of that already. The Founding Father's knew what it was like to suffer at the hands of tyranny, what it was like to be powerless and have no say in how their lives would be affected by unfair governmental policy. I argue that their beliefs are more relevent today than ever becuase it's apparent that many have forgotten their importance because of complacency.
thats debatable,and none of us here are constitional experts. So no one opinion is more valid than any other one opinion.
I'm no constitutional lawyer for sure, and opinions are....well....ya know. LOL. But I do know that any policy or law that violates what many citizens view as a basic liberty should be extremely scrutinized.
thats pure idealism and has no basis in a conversation about the REALITY of fighting terroism
Ideals concerning liberty and freedom are the reason we fought a revolution...a civil war....and two world wars... I don't see the war on terrorism as being any different.
I think where we differ is that I refuse to prostitute those ideals in the name of achieving victory. To me, a victory achieved at the expense of selling out our ideals is no victory at all.
The government uses fear to rob you of your freedoms and liberties that millions have shed blood to ensure you have. To allow that to happen only makes their sacrifices meaningless; they died for nothing. Being a vet, are you willing to allow that?
Where do you draw the line? At what point do we no longer resemble the dream our Founding Fathers had of a free country?
Our enemies hate us because of what we represent...because of those very ideals you support getting rid of. Therefore, by allowing our government to take more and more freedoms away we are only playing into the terrorists aims. Even if we kill every last one of them, they still win if we allow our government to take away our liberties in the name of "national security."
