Safe? Strong?
Deartown Times gets after it with George Bush is weak on defending America.
If tomorrow New York city fell into the Atlantic, but we still had our constitution and liberty, America would continue to be America. If tomorrow California fell into the Pacific, but we still had our constitution and liberty, America would continue to be America. If tomorrow the Great Plains were to suddenly go fallow, but we still had our constitution and liberty, America would continue to be America.
But, if we amass great wealth and secure our oil and gold, but compromise our liberty and stretch the constitution to it's breaking point, America ceases to be America. If, through fear and weakness, we cede our duties as American citizen and give up our liberties to someone who promises security but demands unrestrained power (no matter his claims of benevolence), America ceases to be America. If Americans think their responsibilities as citizens ends at the ballot box, or worse, requires only unquestioning allegiance in the president, America ceases to be the America that generations before us fought and died to secure. We will have squandered their blood.
posted by Lynn @ 10:59 AM
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Opposing warrentless searches and unchecked presidential power has nothing to do with legal niceties and everything to do with defending America and preserving her values.
The hope is that legality and values are always one and the same. The nice thing about the Constitution is that it represents both.
I guess I was trying to counter the Bush wing's argument that requiring warrants was somehow an esoteric leagalistic quirk (hence "niceties")... a subtle point best left for pasty faced academics... rather than a foundational legal requirement and a bedrock American value (4th Amendment)
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