give me liberty or give me…

by Ian Schuldt

Published: March 19, 2008

Actually now that I think about it, if you want to take some of my liberty away that’s cool. I just don’t want to die. I don’t think I’ve made an overseas call in my entire life so I mean honestly if you want to listen in on those calls go right ahead. Seriously I don’t care if you got a warrant or not. Just do whatever you have to do to keep me alive.

Oh and this whole water-boarding thing - obviously I wouldn’t want you doing that to me, or to any Americans, but if you think it’ll drop the terror alert down a color, go right ahead. If a little fake drowning of some suspected terrorists is going to keep me from wetting myself every time I step on an airplane then so be it.

You people who are so worried about having civil liberties can move to Canada. And when Al Qaida attacks Toronto you’ll just have to hide behind one of those big old palm trees that’ll be growing up in the tundra.

We’re giving prisoners of war a nice little vacation prison in the Caribbean with 3 square meals, and a bunch of fancy “human rights.” Meanwhile our prisoners get video taped having their heads chopped off. Ever heard of a little something called the Golden Rule? “Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.” Muslims believe it too. Don’t you get it? They’re torturing our soldiers because they want us to do it to them.

Don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan of freedom and liberty, but what good does it do you if you’re not around to enjoy it. I’m just sick and tired of these cowardly cut-and-run liberals living in their big cities like New York and Washington D.C. (where they will never get attacked anyway), pretending to “risk their lives” for the sake of personal freedom. Brave patriotic Americans like me are sick and tired of being scared of our own shadows. I don’t know about you but I see nothing patriotic in being willing to risk your own life to defend your civil liberties.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, we can’t always have all three. If you want liberty and happiness sometimes you have to risk your life. That’s a risk that real Americans like George Bush just aren’t willing to take. If you want to have your cake sometimes you have to eat a little bit of it too. I guarantee once G.W. leaves office he’ll have no problem with the next President listening in on any freedom loving call he makes to the Middle East.

Our forefathers already died for these freedoms. We shouldn’t have to do it again. The only ones left to enjoy the freedoms we’re unwilling to give up would be our children. Most kids these days don’t even know what the 8th amendment is. Do you really think their going to miss it? We’ll just give them a pretty flag to waive and they’ll be fine, as long as they don’t try and burn it.

These crazy liberals want to go ahead and hand freedoms out like we’ve all just been endowed with them by our creator. If the founders of this country thought those unalienable rights should apply to “all men”, don’t you think they would have written it down somewhere so we wouldn’t forget it?

Ben Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” What he meant by that was that if we don’t have the courage to give our president the liberty to listen in on our phone calls, we’re all going to die! Remember - he invented the telephone. He knew what he was talking about.

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