connecting*the*dots

I’m sorry, but listening to Howard Coble in a conversation about terrorism and my rights makes me sick to my stomach. The man may represent my district, but he does not represent me. His apparent zeal to throw my rights to the wind is cowardly and his position on the “war” on terror is idiotic.

I would never willingly give up my right to privacy. Too many men and women have worked themselves to the bone to establish these provisions of this republic, let alone the numbers who have given their lives to defend it, for me to simply shrug away my rights as an American. To toss these rights aside, simply because we have been smacked awake to the fact that we live in the same reality as the rest of the world, is both cowardly and criminal… at best.

Where I come from, such positions would be considered as spitting on the graves of the men and women that perished on 9/11. They may have died a premature, horrific death, but they were free Americans, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Or maybe that’s just how I was raised.