Originally Posted by
Bart
I'm not in it for the money... I love my country. I am willing to do what is necessary to protect the freedoms enshrined by our Constitution.
Then decline the paycheck.
"Servants" don't force the people they are "serving" to pay them money or ask their bosses to do so for them.
Originally Posted by
Bart
But I will continue to seek a true debate in here with anyone who seriously wants to discuss airport security and ways to improve it.
With your boot firmly in place of course. Like I said.
Originally Posted by
LessO2
Not sure I know too many people who take the time to type out an eight-paragraph reply to others who "bore" them.
LOL!
Exactly.
Originally Posted by
law dawg
Probably because he wasn't really writing it to TD, he was writing to other people out there reading.
Very true. We are his subjects. Better argument or not, he still gets to make us do what he wants at the end. Thus the lectures (not debates, of course).
Originally Posted by
law dawg
I mean, c'mon, do you really think he'll change TD's attitude toward the government?
After all, I too used to believe statist monopoly in some (if not many) places could be productive and moral. Why did I change this strongly held belief? Because people with better arguments showed me why I was wrong.