| Craig, at BookNotes, referred to a posting that I did earlier today under the title "unintended consequences" (You will have to scroll down. Sorry. So much going on.) Thanks Craig. I then sent him an email in response to his comments on a Dave Winer post which he posted on BookNotes. Thanks again Craig.
Below is my email. It states how I feel about what is happening and what we, as citizens, must do.
"You're with us or against us." Were that it was as simple as that. I went through this 30 years ago. "America, love it or leave it." I love America. I hold America to very high standards. The standards of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Give up those two documents and you no longer have America. Give up those two documents and what's the point? How can we say we are fighting for freedom if we're willing to give up freedom? Two countries in the 1930s gave up freedoms for security: Germany and Italy. Where did that get them?
... It's our responsibility, as citizens of this country, to support America. That may mean supporting our leaders. It may mean not suporting our leaders. Who was the greater patriot - Richard Nixon or Daniel Ellsburg who, for those who don't remember, released the Pentagon Pagers? I put my money on Ellsburg. We must not confuse our appointed politicians with America. Bush is not America. We are. All of us.
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