The Price of Freedoms

The headline reads "Obama To Release Secret Bush Anti-Terror Files". These are the documents from the Bush administration created right after 9/11. They deal with how the President and the C.I.A. might use new and extensive powers to help foil another such attack. As expected, those on the left in this country fear that somehow this will trample civil liberties and result in the C.I.A. taking them away in the middle of the night and then "waterboarding" them because they once visited Egypt on their senior-class trip!

When I read headlines like this, I really shudder at exactly who it is that we've put in the White House. Not that it's surprising. But once again, it proves that Obama cannot appreciate that we are at war. Because if he did, then he might go back in history and review what his heroes FDR of Lincoln did to civil liberties in time of war. Things that make George Bush look like a ACLU booster!

Or maybe he fears for some of his friends who really are enemies of the U.S.. People like William Ayers, who in FDR's time, likely would have been hung.

It is a beautiful and treasured thing to have the kind of freedoms and rights that we enjoy in this country. But in time of war, the enemy can and will use those same liberties to do us harm. And if Obama really subscribes to the limitations he is espousing on wiretaps, warrants and such, then he is putting us in a position to loose more than just some civil liberty to make a phone call to Saudi Arabia in privacy. He is endangering our right to security and safety. Apparently we need another 9/11 in order for this administration and his wacko counterparts in Congress to understand that we are at war. And when that happens there may be several thousand who lose the most fundamental right of all: life.

The fact is, that the socialistic policies of this administration will end up taking a heck of a lot more freedom away from us then they will ever restore. Count on it.