9-11
Why did 9-11 happen? On one hand, it was a group of less than 20 people who carried out the attack. On the other hand, it demonstrated that there are a lot of people in the world who would be very happy if bad things happened to Americans.
One of the great things about the United States is that we cherish our freedoms, which are based upon unalienable rights that come from the Creator. Over the centuries, we have had to erode our freedoms for various reasons. The one that impacts us the most is the concept of equality, which has been extended from equality under the law to equality in many other arenas. Our freedoms have also been compromised by a desire to protect us from harm, domestic and foreign.
We have legislated away the right to drive drunk. Random stops, searches and arrests are all legal, not because the drunk has done anything wrong, but out of desire to protect. Similarly, we have IRS audits, metal detectors preventing taking of weapons into schools, courts and planes, and no smoking laws.
DocBrain believes that it is the government's job to protect us and our job to tell the government exactly how much protection we want. We have that right in the USA, and that is an element of what is great about our country. What some people do not understand is that it is the majority of the American people who are pushing our government to protect us, not our government forcing us to closer scrutiny.
Now, it seems prudent to DocBrain for the government to do what it takes to protect us from Islamoterrorism. This does produce some levels of discomfort among those who are pro-American Muslims and among those who advocate violent overthrow of our government and are not Muslim.
It is important that we empower our government to solve the problem of Islamoterrorism as soon as possible, so that we can feel safe in taking our freedoms back. To do otherwise is to prolong our self-imposed reduction of freedom.
One last word. Our Constitution is a contract between the citizens of the USA and the government. Rights guaranteed in the constitution do not extend to non-citizens, nor do non-citizens have any specific obligations to the USA. If we choose, we can give some rights to non-citizens, but these are purely gifts and can be revoked by us at any time. If you do not see a difference between a non-citizen and a citizen in terms of rights under the Constitution, then you probably have no concept of your duties to your country.
One of the great things about the United States is that we cherish our freedoms, which are based upon unalienable rights that come from the Creator. Over the centuries, we have had to erode our freedoms for various reasons. The one that impacts us the most is the concept of equality, which has been extended from equality under the law to equality in many other arenas. Our freedoms have also been compromised by a desire to protect us from harm, domestic and foreign.
We have legislated away the right to drive drunk. Random stops, searches and arrests are all legal, not because the drunk has done anything wrong, but out of desire to protect. Similarly, we have IRS audits, metal detectors preventing taking of weapons into schools, courts and planes, and no smoking laws.
DocBrain believes that it is the government's job to protect us and our job to tell the government exactly how much protection we want. We have that right in the USA, and that is an element of what is great about our country. What some people do not understand is that it is the majority of the American people who are pushing our government to protect us, not our government forcing us to closer scrutiny.
Now, it seems prudent to DocBrain for the government to do what it takes to protect us from Islamoterrorism. This does produce some levels of discomfort among those who are pro-American Muslims and among those who advocate violent overthrow of our government and are not Muslim.
It is important that we empower our government to solve the problem of Islamoterrorism as soon as possible, so that we can feel safe in taking our freedoms back. To do otherwise is to prolong our self-imposed reduction of freedom.
One last word. Our Constitution is a contract between the citizens of the USA and the government. Rights guaranteed in the constitution do not extend to non-citizens, nor do non-citizens have any specific obligations to the USA. If we choose, we can give some rights to non-citizens, but these are purely gifts and can be revoked by us at any time. If you do not see a difference between a non-citizen and a citizen in terms of rights under the Constitution, then you probably have no concept of your duties to your country.
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