Originally Posted by Mainstreet

It's not what precisely what this exercise means. Maybe it's nothing pertinent at all. However, it is the fear that the executive branch has expanded it's power to an alarming extent that is worrisome... where our country is now fighting preemptive wars for no valid reason (there was no imminent threat to our country from Iraq as told), wiretapping of American citizens is now taking place without cause, subpoenas are ignored, habeas corpus is irrelevant and torture is condoned.

It's also the feeling that something beautiful is slipping away piece by piece. There are also others out there who remember Kent State and our country fighting the other war that shouldn't have been fought... Vietnam. Sometime Goggle the Gulf of Tonkin and also read about the Domino Theory... that the world would fall to communism if we left that country. It's our duty as U.S. citizens to question what our country does. IMO, it's the truest form of patriotism.

Originally Posted by Mainstreet

It's also the feeling that something beautiful is slipping away piece by piece. There are also others out there who remember Kent State and our country fighting the other war that shouldn't have been fought... Vietnam. Sometime Goggle the Gulf of Tonkin and also read about the Domino Theory... that the world would fall to communism if we left that country. It's our duty as U.S. citizens to question what our country does. IMO, it's the truest form of patriotism.

Originally Posted by Mainstreet

It's not what precisely what this exercise means. Maybe it's nothing pertinent at all. However, it is the fear that the executive branch has expanded it's power to an alarming extent that is worrisome... where our country is now fighting preemptive wars for no valid reason (there was no imminent threat to our country from Iraq as told), wiretapping of American citizens is now taking place without cause, subpoenas are ignored, habeas corpus is irrelevant and torture is condoned.

It's also the feeling that something beautiful is slipping away piece by piece. There are also others out there who remember Kent State and our country fighting the other war that shouldn't have been fought... Vietnam. Sometime Goggle the Gulf of Tonkin and also read about the Domino Theory... that the world would fall to communism if we left that country. It's our duty as U.S. citizens to question what our country does. IMO, it's the truest form of patriotism.

Originally Posted by devilalum

This is the irony that is "The Patriot Act."