So, Linda you are in FAVOR of the freedoms and liberties that have been sacrificed upon the unholy "War On Drugs" altar ?
Do you know the full ramifications of that which has happened ? Can you enumerate and elaborate on which principles of the United States Constitution were thrown out the window in this so-called war - what the current ACCEPTED practices both in LE and the Courts are in this un-holy war - and reconcile those to U.S. Constitutional Principles ?
I am all ears, ma'am. More than willing to hear your reasonings and rationale - from a CONSTITUTIONAL standpoint, of course.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
Although anecdotal - even this 'small exchange' should emphasize, again, that freedoms and liberties are NOT primarily sacrificed for 'economic gain' - as previously argued, but are EASILY sacrificed by initiating the appropriate, "State of Fear".
Works every time.
So to answer that which you considered nothing more than a rhetorical statement-question, Linda ...
You have to be kidding.
Absolutely not. Serious as a heart attack.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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