Subj : Re: OT Military
To   : All
From : Cherokee
Date : Mon Jan 13 2003 11:58 am

Agreed, people don't HAVE to be searched, it is voluntary (only
compulsory if you wish to fly on an airliner). 

I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that we need to fight a war,
though it probably will come to that.

I don't see why you are frightened by the President's "recent record on
liberty".  What are you afraid of (specifically)?



--- col sanders <twgsdotorg@twgs.org> wrote:
> 
> We can get into a discussion of how it all started when the great 
> Communist FDR blackmailed the supreme court to misinterpret the
> Commerce 
> Clause, and how that led to the regulation of EVERYTHING including 
> airlines and the great loss of freedoms we enjoy today... But why 
> over-complicate things.  The airlines are private industry.  They are
> 
> regulated, as is EVERYTHING these days.  Americans are STUPID and
> need 
> to be protected from themselves (not my opinion, the opinion of thsoe
> in 
> power).  People don't *have to be searched* they can ride amtrak if
> they 
> object so much (for foreigners, thats the train).  Anyway, let not 
> confuse things, do we need to fight a war in the middle east,
> probably. 
>  Is the Bush Admin's recent record on liberty frightening, yes.  Are
> the 
> two related, no.  
> 
> Cherokee wrote:
> 
> >That is oversimplified.  It is not the airlines mandating the
> searches.
> > In fac

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