Conservatives, Some, Understand

Okay, what if, say, you were an enthusiastic gun collector. And you were talking to some importer on an overseas line, discussing if you can get a nice unique firearm, and the question of what you can and cannot own comes up, and you say some threatening things about the government along with "... when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers." You also talked about al Qaida, and a number of phrases triggered an NSA snooping computer. Next day, you're hauled away for questioning and the ATF swarm over your gun collection.

And they take away your guns, even though your fingers aren't cold and dead.

I'd hear scenarios like that all the time when Clinton was president. But now, how comfortable are those right wingers with libertarian tendencies with what King George has been doing? If they trust him, would they trust the same powers in the next president Clinton?

I think we can all agree: We can't have a government that breaks its own laws, that goes over its own system of checks and balances.

Found here, conservative Bruce Fein, a Justice Dept. official under Ronald Reagan, writes in conservative paper the Washington Times:

President Bush presents a clear and present danger to the rule of law. He cannot be trusted to conduct the war against global terrorism with a decent respect for civil liberties and checks against executive abuses.