>SNIP
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>>Jim. So we MUST take step to prevent attacks, yet many Americans, and others, are not willing to up with even the slightest inconvenience in exchange for more security. We have activist who cry "racism" or even will sue you for anything they see as discrimination.
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>>Not an easy task, protecting a country that is based on open society, without stepping on someone's feeling.
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>But as I see it, Sam, the "open society" is disappearing fast.
>In an "open society" the steps taken INSIDE MY COUNTRY would be debated and agreed and citizens would know about them. The need for secrecy is waaaaaayyyy overblown but is used to advantage by those in power. You can be sure that it's a slippery slope of which they intend to take full advantage.

So everything should be debated and should be agreed on before the gov't take action?
Aren't there somethings that are better for the country if the general public didn't know.

I always thought we elect people to make decision on their own on our behalf.
And if we don't like the decisions they've made, we elect them out of office on the next election, or in extreme case, maybe even "impeach".

>The more your Administration (and ours for all I know) goes on secretly watching the citizens the closer the Islamic Fundamentalists are to victory over freedom.

Oh...I don't know... the so called "wire tapping" hasn't bother anyone that I know of. I think it's MOSTLY hysteria from the anti-BUSH/anti-GOVENMENT groups.


>The more your Administration allows corporate greed to supercede decency values, the closer the Islamic Fundamentalists get to proving some of their points.

Huh? if so how come, despite all their oil and money, most of their people are poor and jobless? I guess this is our fault too. :)

They certainly don't distribute their wealth, even amoung their own people....