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Thread #38851   Message #548510
Posted By: Justa Picker
12-Sep-01 - 08:38 PM
Thread Name: The price of freedom ??
Subject: RE: The price of freedom ??
One more quick rant.

Thing is...freedom itself isn't free. It comes with a price and every so often the piper has to be paid.

Without the government, military, intelligence, etc. keeping a normally and reasonably quiet lid on things, day in day out and sure (maybe skirting an ammendment or two in the process) to safeguard your rights, you wouldn't have the freedom to sing your protest songs, rant about your leftist liberal philosophies, and anarchistic dreams of world peace.

Instead some of you (based on what I've been reading here these past 48 hours) would rather comfront your enemies and say, "Jeepers Mr. Terrorist, is there's anything else we can getcha?" ..or.. perhaps just bend over a little more for further optimum receivership.

Some here have conveniently lost sight of the price of freedom as you think you know it.

(But then again it's a folk forum and oh geez, what was I thinking?)


Rant-off