A shame he wasn't around to talk some sense into Patrick Henry

NNN0LHI

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Mon May-22-06 07:11 AM
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A shame he wasn't around to talk some sense into Patrick Henry

http://www.suntimes.com/output/quicktakes/cst-nws-qt22.html

Your liberties or your life

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) explaining why parts of the Bill of Rights might have to be set aside while we fight the terrorists:

"You have no civil liberties if you are dead."

A shame he wasn't around to talk some sense into Patrick Henry.

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DemonFighterLives

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Mon May-22-06 07:13 AM
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1. Oh boy

That Roberts should be put out to pasture. What a dork!
:freak:

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90-percent

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Mon May-22-06 07:17 AM
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2. At least...

At least he's not playing the fear card.

If we destroy the constitution, can this protect me from ever getting hit by lightning? The probability of dying by lighting is probably a million times more likely than dying by terra-ist.

-85% Jimmy

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zeemike

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Mon May-22-06 07:19 AM
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3. Again his statement reminds me of the cold war statement

Better red than dead.
WE are ether with them or against them I guess, ether red or or the new color of traitor...blue

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Mon May-22-06 07:42 AM
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4. Why don't the dems call these statements cowardly fear-mongering?

Ben Franklin didn't think Roberts' approach would work either.

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MannyGoldstein

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Mon May-22-06 07:48 AM
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5. Patrick Henry Was Also Wrong About Torture!

"They may introduce the practice of France, Spain, and Germany--of torturing, to extort a confession of the crime. They will say that they might as well draw examples from those countries as from Great Britain, and they will tell you that there is such a necessity of strengthening the arm of government, that they must have a criminal equity, and extort confession by torture, in order to punish with still more relentless severity. We are then lost and undone." - Patrick Henry

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