[Tuor]

Until such a time as we have a greater control over the potential for terrorism in our country,

You mean until we are all slaves...or are all dead. In the meantime, the government can ignore the Constitution for our own good, right? No, not for our own good, for our own safety, right?

Give me liberty or give me death... I guess he was at a college debate.

Tuor

[Frances_Marion]

"You mean until we are all slaves...or are all dead. In the meantime, the government can ignore the Constitution for our own good, right? No, not for our own good, for our own safety, right?"

The U.S. government has been ignoring/violating the Constitution for years...I and I'm sure many others can cite example after example. Why now, during a time of war, are you suddenly freaking out?

[elephantlips]

It would seem from the logic of your response that we should continue to "spread" the pain by frisking all people instead of racial profiling which is frowned upon. Also, to be fair, we should haul the thousands of captured combatants before our court system where they can have their years of exposure to the media before anything could even remotely happen to them, after all, this is America and we must do everything as PC as possible to maintain our image. There are other examples however, if you truly believe that we can continue to function as we did before, then there is nothing I can say to change your mind. We are at war. It may not look like a Hollywood version with John Wayne et al but we are at war. Even in the Hollywood version of war, there wasn't what we would call "normal justice" on the battlefield and there won't be on the new battlefield. Because I have a viewpoint on this particular aspect does not mean I want to give up firearms, free speech or any other of the basics. I simply mean that there are new rules and we need to deal with the issues just to survive.