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we Must Die by...

Things are different in a post 9/11 world

No. The Founders didn't write a document that could be folded up and ignored when convenient. It's stood the test of time, and was written by men far more sophisticated and intelligent than the morons that pass for political leaders these days.

Give them some credit for knowing the human spirit better than the leaders of today.

Because if you leave the tools for self-defense in the hands of the citizens, well, who knows what they might do?

The Espionage Act of 1917 might prove interesting reading, too.

I'm not supporting the wholesale abrogation of rights but I also think it's important we keep things in proportion. Abolutist positions on both sides of this discussion are simply not moored in the facts.

The thing is that if you only read the internet for 5 minutes, you may be mislead. But if you read it for 15 minutes, you'll find that the misleading information gets poked, prodded and debunked pretty quickly. Unlike getting the bureaucrats to admit they mislead the public which takes decades.

Things are different in a post 9/11 world

We cannot afford the first ammendment when lives are on the line.

Posted by RWB | January 31, 2008 | 12:10 pm

RWB couldn't have that more bass-ackwarkd if he tried.

Lives are to be placed on the line in order that we preserve and defend The Constiution.

Were not our Founder's signatures on the Delcaration of Independence signed under the phrase: "With our Lives and Sacred Honor" ? Or was that just hyperbole on their part?

Oh, and that whole American Revolution thing, you know, where thousands of lives were not only put on the line, put paid in blood, and that in full measure, that our God given rights and freedoms might be secured.

Lives on the line, you say. And of what worth does the trifle of a sentiment like yours make the many hundreds of thousands of lives already given in defense of our freedoms and our Constituion in lo, these past 235 years, hmmm?

RWB, enjoy your chains; may they rest easy upon your weak, pathetic shoulders.

Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX

We cannot afford the first ammendment when lives are on the line.

Nice troll, there, RWB.

Blogs could very well be used as part of a concerted effort to spread panic through financial markets and/or the general public through misinformation, and this exercise was intended to help prepare government officials for that possibility.

As I have said before - until we win the war on terror ALL news (blogs) should be passed through governement censors to be sure we do not give terrorists any usefull intelligence. We cannot afford the first ammendment when lives are on the line.

Trains, planes, and bloggers. WASHINGTON - It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations......

At one time, a few phone calls could shut down a news story (for good or ill). Now, the gate keeper function s gone. While that is a good thing in peace time, is it really so hard to imagine it being a potential problem in war time?

[Source: Outside The Beltway | OTB] quoted: war game, according to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained by The Associated Press. The Homeland Security Department ran the exercise to test the nation’s hacker defenses, with hel...