<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
To protect the lives, rights and freedoms of people like us?</blockquote><div><br>I'm sure that is what *many* of them would like to believe. But I'm also sure, at least from watching recent Armed Forces advertisements, that some of them are doing it because they get to play with *way* cooler video games. And then there are a few who do it because you get to play with weapons that simply cannot be obtained at the local gun store.
<br><br>But given recent actions by the executive grant one really has to wonder if we are not losing *our* rights (Britian is already a pseudo "big brother" state). When it was my relatives fighting my other relatives (I'm half English) it was a relatively level playing field. But as Tienamen Square showed it takes real moxy for a single *unarmed* individual to go up against a tank. I wouldn't know how to begin to face down an aircraft carrier (without firepower that cannot easily be obtained by anyone other than nation-states at this time).
<br><br>Robert<br><br></div><br></div><br>