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the threat of allowing this seems to me greater than the threat created by preventing it.
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Be sure to remember this when you're being arrested on a trumped-up charge in order to make an example of you for saying things someone in power doesn't like or finds offensive. Child-molestation or kiddie-porn posession was a favorite such charge of certain midwestern PDs in the 1990s. Think about that. Then think about the fact that one day, another George W. Bush -will- be back in power, and objecting to wars and torture -will- be considered treason, or terrorism, or support for terrorism, by that administration or at least some of those within it. According to your line of reasoning, all that administration (or those people) would need to do in order to justify trumping up a false charge of molestation, or kiddie porn, or whatever they thought would do the trick, is make exactly the argument you've made above: that allowing you to protest the war (or whatever the situation may be) is more dangerous to the Body Politic than falsifying a charge against you and hauling you off to prison to shut you up. And you, my friend, will have absolutely -no- room to bitch about anything that happens to you, your family, or your friends. To paraphrase Solzhenitsyn, you will purely and simply deserve EVERYTHING that happens to you.
People wonder why the Constitution gets trashed, left and right, on a constant basis? People wonder where the PATRIOT Act came from? This is where. This mentality right here.