Re: Share Your Childhood ?

The problem is most of us don't trust one arm of the government to be spying
on us without another arm keeping them in check.

Old_Timer wrote:
| On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:59:26 -0400, "Nixon.D" <nixon.d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| wrote:
|
||
|| "Joan F (MI)" <jjfahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|| news:coKdnWBAdcF37EXbnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||| No one can really protect you. Shit happens and either you are
||| lucky and it
||| doesn't fall on you or you are unlucky and it falls on you. If it
||| isn't one
||| thing it's another. There are 10,000 other things you are more
||| likely to die from than a terrorist attack.
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||
|| Yours is a totally simplistic/erroneous way to view this subject.
|| Death is not the only problem.
|| There's the problem of having to live in a social environment that
|| is worse than death. And, there are many things worse than death.
|| In addition, there are the lives and deaths of your loved ones and
|| your fellow citizens. I assume you have at least a little care for
|| them.
||
|| No, repeat NO, right or freedom is total, 100 percent, absolute.
|| All rights/freedoms overlap must give and take from time to time in
|| order to achieve a decent societal balance.
||
|| I would prefer giving up a limited portion of my "rights/freedoms"
|| to insure that we retain our sovereignty and our decent standard of
|| living. Appeasement and fear and cowardice will be the
|| characteristics that do us in. Thanks. But, no
|| thanks !!
||
|| McDave
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|
| Some probably believe that the ultimate in regard to rights and
| freedoms would be a society where everyone can do what they want, when
| they want, and how they want.
|
| This is, of course, a very mistaken notion. That is a description of
| Anarchy not a society of rights and freedom.
|
| In order to preserve rights and freedom for the group the extent of
| rights and freedom for the individual must be subject to some
| limitations.
|
| Old_Timer


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