<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by robinhood:
It disturbs me how easy it is demand the sacrifice of OTHER PEOPLE's rights and civil liberties to preserve YOUR safety. Hasn't our country lost enough without calling for shredding of the Constitution?</font>
We are in a different world now. Indeed, we are in a different country. I don't think that anyone is being forced to "sacrifice" his "rights" to preserve safety. And I think that saying the Constitution is being shredded is a little dramatic. EVERYONE is giving up some rights and liberties because of what happened. And I'll take the sacrifice of political correctness for a while over the sacrifice of more lives.
As a gay man, I have been "profiled" by the American Red Cross as a danger to the blood supply, despite 15 years of negative HIV tests. Does it bother me? Yes. Is it personal? No. Do I still support the Red Cross? You bet.
It, like the ultimate profiling that will be done on many Americans, is the long-term price to be paid for safety. And I hate to apologize for my very human feelings that my safety does come before someone's feelings. It's VERY painful to admit that sometimes, but it's true.