Originally Posted by Milarepa
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.
True, it is easy to make that mistake. Most legal documents are easy to read, and in fact, are written in a simple style to make them accessible to most people. I think what makes them seem so confusing to some people is that there are often nearly identical repetitions that may cause us to skip parts. However, the repetitious language that addresses every single item in question is there to help clarify and prevent confusion that could lead to more legal questions.
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.
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