Actually, Inthewind, to make an example of the frequent poster here who was detained at a screening checkpoint for 25 minutes because he expressed an opinion about the government, it IS a civil liberty injustice under our fundamental law. And in 1979 I swore an oath to defend that fundamental law, the Constitution that protects us all from such civil liberty injustices, from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I consider that oath to be a lifetime commitment.

Which brings us to another of your ad hominem points about not paying for the freedom that must constantly be defended. I swore the oath I mentioned above on the first day of my connection with an organization whose initials are sometimes interpreted as Uncle Sam's Motherless Children.

It's been my observation that some of those who are the bravest and most willing to sacrifice for that constitution and our nation have never taken such a formal oath at all.