sinkspur wrote above:
"If we force people of a certain faith to carry special ID, track them & open a government agency espousing a favored faith, aren't we what we hate?"
No.
Instead, it demonstrates that in extraordinary times, we have the courage and the intestinal fortitude to use extraordinary measures in order to preserve ourselves and ensure that our nation, our culture, our faiths, and our race have the right to a future.
Interestingly, kevindavis above wrote:
"I happen to [be] quite fond of the Constitution and yes it is a suicide pact."
If the Constitution is (as you kevin cites in his own words) a "suicide pact", then reasonable men, acting reasonably must realize that it must be either re-worded so as to no longer promote our own "suicide", or, in lieu of that certain parts of it must be temporarily suspended until at such times it is safe to re-enable them back into full force.
Hence, my addition of text into the end of the First Amendment, as posted above.
If we don't put restrictions on at least one entire group of people (the muslims), we will arrive at a point in time (due to accelerated acts of terrorism and muslim-inspired violence within our own borders), that we'll see the government -- out of "fairness" -- move to put civil restrictions on ALL of us.
Just as the TSA does today at airports.
Right_in_Virginia wrote above:
"Most Americans, including our Founders, prefer life and will act to protect it. So, no, you (fill in the blank), the Constitution is NOT a suicide pact."
Could you be thinking of Jefferson's line, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" ...?
The very first word in that famous saying is "life".
Without that entity first, there can be no liberty (second) or happiness (third).
We must preserve the life of ourselves and our nation first -- without it, nothing else matters.
We also should preserve liberty for those who will respect its tenets.
Therein lies the rub. The Conundrum.
islam DOES NOT "respect" the liberty of others, indeed seeks to subjugate such liberties of those whom it does not kill outright. Will anyone in this forum deny this truth?
Given the opportunity, muslims will do here what they're doing in Europe.
So long as they receive the same Constitutional guarantees that the rest of us enjoy, they will husband such protections until the time comes when they have achieved enough strength with which to to wrest our freedoms from us.
This is why -- at least insofar as islam and islam's goals are concerned -- our Constitution -IS- in danger of transmogrifying into a suicide pact and in time it WILL be used against us.
So we must act to preclude that from happening.
I'm not happy to have to do this, but it must be done.
