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To: exnavychick
You see where I'm going with that.

No I don't. You seem to have fallen for SM*-lover propaganda.

You really have to dig to discover Nichol's and McVeigh's religion.
The SMs* have it in our face at every murdering videotaped outrage: Allah is Great!" on the banner behind them as they behead a helpless civilian. You really think there is an equivalence here?

*SM© = Sweet Muslims

23 posted on 12/19/2004 10:33:55 AM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Publius6961

That's a good point that you had to dig to find out their faith, whereas Atta and the others had theirs right out front.

But the fact remains that people have had their civil liberties curtailed in the past due to religion or ethnicity, and nothing good came of it. Remember the Holocaust? I'm not saying that you advocate that kind of thing, but I'm sure there were plenty of Germans who thought it was okey dokey to send the Jews to concentration camps and never spared a thought as to what might happen next.

We established a freedom of religon here (1st Amendment ring a bell?) for a reason. I don't think tinkering with the Constitution on this one is a good idea...too many people can hijack the process and pervert it to their own ends. I don't think anything like the Holocaust could happen again, or the Japanese internment camps, for that matter. And I am GLAD. That type of behavior offends me as an American.

I, frankly, don't care to have anyone telling them that they cannot practice their religon or curtail civil rights on the basis of religon alone. Not a good precendent. I am all for defense, so let's use the laws and technology we have, rather than treating some citizens as second-class out of a misguided sense of caution.


27 posted on 12/19/2004 10:44:01 AM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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