Editor,
In this time of intense patriotism, who among us is truly ready to risk death for our freedoms?
I suspect that many people deeply believe that they are, but which freedoms will they risk death to preserve? The freedom of privacy? Of habeas corpus? Of speech? Of free assembly? Of free expression? The freedom from unreasonable search and seizure?
Are we willing to risk death at the hands of terrorists as the price of these freedoms?
I see many people wave our flag and - remarkably - at the same time proclaim that we must give up our Constitutional freedoms in order to be safer. I see members of Congress quick to legislate away our freedoms for our safety.
Where is the courage and patriotism in that?
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We should let our representative know that we are not so fearful as to have them legislate away the freedoms and privacy that other generations have died to give us.
Dennis M. Burke
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