<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PaulMSN:
Beergut said:
>Your constitutional rights are of no use >whatsoever if you're dead.
and
>Go on USA , get rid of the " intrusive " >security and have your " rights" chiselled >into your headstone.
These statements are relevant only if you can show that if we keep our constitutional rights, we will die. The truth is more of us will die from auto accidents that from terrorism. We seem to have accepted auto deaths as a cost of personal mobility. Maybe we should make our peace with the fact that terrorism won't be going away soon, take reasonable precautions of course, and maybe try to eliminate some of the reasons terrorism exists. </font>
Exactly!
We should make peace with the fact that some will die as a result of terrorist attacks and try to eliminate/minimize those deaths - but not by infringing on my constitutional rights.
To re-phrase
beergut's observation: My life is of no use if my rights have been taken away.
As they say in
New Hampshire, Live Free or Die.
