I respectfully disagree Tiger. I feel that such necessary steps as the homeland security bill will help us protect our selves and lets not forget one the democrats might be able to pull a filibuster (hopefully not) and 2 it may not be permanent I think the sacrificing of certain liberties could be necessary and they don't mean every single person who comes in to these countries. I think Pres. Busch is taking a step in the right direction.

zaggy i also disagree here. If anyone took our rights the terrorists of 9-11 and other times took them away and by forefitting these rights TEMPORARILY we could stop such things happen again

lastly, I think that our privacy is at stake always when we are on-line by the methods many of us know to read e-mail that is not ours. We know many things about computers and the governments privacy is at stake as numerous people break into the pentagon mainframe every year and some are not caught. I think this falls on the line on wether the gov't should lie to protect us and not reval vital information. I say yes if it will help out country or us i say my personal liberty is not what is at stake but the capture of a criminal.