Living more than the mere life is not possible either if you have no constitutional rights whatsoever.

Osama bin Laden, henchmen and ilk are, to some degree, students (perverted students) of history. They know well that the security and defense expenditures of the Soviet Bloc were so cumbersome that their economies collapsed under the burden. They are hoping to do the same thing to us. Fortunately, there are two things they forget: open market economics (capitalism) have a way to finance not only defense-related expenditures over longer periods of time than planned economies but our system also creates better economic growth to allow us to continue spending for longer periods of time -- more or less sustainably. The other item they forgot is that people work better when free.

[This message has been edited by GUWonder (edited 12-09-2002).]