[Kaslin]

What a piece of garbage. You forgot the barf alert

[joesnuffy]

Yep..hold your little dog close to you and click your heels three times repeating "there are no terrorists, there are no terrorists, there are no terrorists"...and maybe when you wake up you will see that a nation that doesnt or wont control its borders,profile terrorists, and passes out free citizenship like holloween candy has no choice but do do as is being done....
Imagine what road the Clinton and the Gore would have taken...

[Mfkmmof4]

I suggest that the author of this letter not visit the US and he can remain feeling safe.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Interesting post. Thank you.

[steve-b]

the military has ended up with a boot in the door of domestic law enforcement

[habs4ever]

Margolis hasn't been the same since 9/11, and has gone off into the fever swamps with some others on the Right.What a shame, he used to read as well as a Paul Johnson, and was an interesting voice in Canadin journalism and a good tonic against the bland left consensus up here.

No more.

[Dog Gone]

Using US troops to arrest Canadian citizens sounds like a swell idea to me. Let's start with Peter Jennings.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Haven't you heard about the "Thou shalt no criticize Bush" rule? The mere mention of his signing of CFR will get you called a Bush basher.

[Old philosopher]

It is amazing how FR is becoming populated with the moronic "Pee in their pants" liberals who will criticize this article. These people who are so terrified, that they have already surrendered any pretense of trying to keep our freedom and liberties. They must cower in the basement every time the government propaganda machine announces the "Latest Weekly Threatened Terrorist Attack", there to pee in their pants in fear of the attack that does not come. Of course when they pee in their pants, they get a warm feeling about how the "Government" is protecting them.

Sixty years ago we were a nation of free men, courageous and willing to fight for their freedom and liberty, now I see a nation of Cowards who look to the politicians to provide them with security. I say to them, remember Ben Franklin's admonition,"Those who are willing to trade freedom in exchange for security, will have neither freedom nor security"

I was there, I have seen the change.

That's my opinion

[Consort]

Toronto Sun: Maple Leaf Rag.

[rintense]

I can't believe I'm actually sitting in the city that produced this piece of crap.

[dirtboy]

This frightening plan comes on the heels of Bush's cutely named but sinister TIPs program, a network of citizen informers that recalls evil memories of ubiquitous Soviet and Chinese civilian informers, children denouncing parents, and East Germany, where a quarter of the adult population spied for the Stasi secret police.

I was opposed to TIPS, but this level of comparison is over the top.

Interestingly, the Soviet communists were even more sensitive to this threat. Lenin repeatedly warned of "Bonapartism" and urged the party to keep control of internal security and police in the hands of civilians.

One would think that Margolis could come up with a better argument than this to bolster his position. Lenin's successor Stalin was a civlian, after all, for all the good it did for the millions he had killed.

[logician2u]

. . the far-rightists who populate the darker corners of the Bush administration = neoconservatives

(If any FReepers can name me a "far-rightist" in the any corner of the Bush administration, let fly.)

[justshe]

By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor

And you sir, can kiss my grits.

Then get down on your knees and thank God that should your nation ever be invaded or struck by terrorists, that you have a GOOD friend in President Bush.