BlueJay:
I have always been confused by the Republican take on rights. On the one hand, they seem to be unwilling to grant individuals any rights over their own bodies with regard to sexual activity and birth control, as well as what substances one ingests. However, they also *don't* seem to have any trouble allowing corporate entities to infuse citizens with whatever chemicals they will under the guise of a free unimpeded market.

They also seem pretty free insisting that religious freedom means freedom for fundamentalist Christians, but not so much for other religious entities. And they also assert their tortured and irrelevant --in the current era--version of the second ammendment over the publics right to be safer from gun violence. And having once insured at least a sizable percentage of the public *is* armed, they want to eliminate rights to due process and dissemination of information that would insure that that freedom actually means something.

IMHO,when we respond to these trying situtions by reigning in our freedoms, those who would destroy our way of life have won, and they need not even do anything else. We have done their work for them.