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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Customs regulations have just about nothing to do with your or my "civil liberties" .... so please to dismount from your high horse.
I don't remember waving anything under anyone's nose. But my arrogance is generally in direct proportion to the stupidity of the person on the other side of the argument.
In fact, the only reason my law degree even came up is because some complete idiot made a point of insisting that I had none.
And, for that matter .... I'm not overly impressed with you. If you want to live in a place that is (1) entirely "free" and (2) entirely "secure" .... then, please move there ... and do let us all know (1) where it is and (2) how much you are enjoying it.
Arrogantly yours,
Ricky Maveety
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I am really surprised! I was under the assumption that law school and the legal profession in general required high reading comprehension skills, I guess the best of us can be mistaken.
My post was not about living in an entirely free, entirely safe society. In fact, it is just the opposite. You can EITHER have freedom or you can have security. The two principles do not co-exist very well. It seems to me that too many Americans have already decided they would prefer security. We will pay for that some day.
This is entirely about civil liberties. Do you honestly believe it is correct for the government to suspend civil liberties just because somebody has broken the law? Do you think that it is okay for the government of the United States to disregard privacy and freedom on the off chance that they will protect us? Do you think that Hitler's Germany started out with the atrocities in which it ended, or do you think it was a gradual buildup? Yes I am equating the current disregard for personal and civil liberties in this country to Hitler's Germany, we are on a very dangerous road, and it is long past time that we wake up and realize that the government is wrong! We will lose our own freedoms after those whom they are profiling now, and we will wonder how it got to this point.
You will never find a place that is completely secure that is also free, but I personally choose freedom.