Show me where in the constitution it gurantees the right "live without terror." I do, however, believe there are portions about equality of all people. We are a society of laws, you can't arbitrarily suspend the fundamentals of our nation because you want to "live without terror." which is a wonderfully nubulous phrase. Do i really need to invoke memories of McCarthyism, because that's what this sounds like. The restriction of civil libirties because of a new threat that is scaring people. The United States of America has to be true to one thing, the laws laid out in our Constitution, just because there's a new threat on the horizon doesn't mean you all of a sudden forget about that.

Lincoln was absolutely wrong and I don't care how he's remembered, you cannot mess with the constitution. Additionally, if the south had been allowed to leave, we would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and George Bush wouldn't be our President....but, that's a different debate.

By the way, the blogs are too long and the logic meanders all over the place. Break this down into snippets which we can understand, because it's too much of a hassle to wade through all of it.

But, it's a good discussion topic, i agree.