Comments on: ACLU and the Wive’s of Terrorists http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/01/29/aclu-and-the-wives-of-terrorists/ Spreading Conservative ideas across the net. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:35:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: grumpy old fart http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/01/29/aclu-and-the-wives-of-terrorists/#comment-114721 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:55:10 +0000 http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/01/29/aclu-and-the-wives-of-terrorists/#comment-114721 "But I do know that we are engaged in a new kind of war". "Traditional thinking needs to be tossed out of the window" "We can't be bothered with little things like civil and human rights, it's war!" OK, the last one was mine. Perpetual war is a great excuse for anything. You may, however, recall this memorable exchange: Wife Arrest him! More For what? Wife He's dangerous! Roper For all we know he's a spy! Daughter Father, that man's bad! More There's no law against that! Roper There is, God's law! More Then let God arrest him! Wife While you talk he's gone! More And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law! Roper So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! More Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that! More Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down (and you're just the man to do it!), do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake! “But I do know that we are engaged in a new kind of war”.

“Traditional thinking needs to be tossed out of the window”

“We can’t be bothered with little things like civil and human rights, it’s war!”

OK, the last one was mine.

Perpetual war is a great excuse for anything. You may, however, recall this memorable exchange:

Wife Arrest him!
More For what?
Wife He’s dangerous!
Roper For all we know he’s a spy!
Daughter Father, that man’s bad!
More There’s no law against that!
Roper There is, God’s law!
More Then let God arrest him!
Wife While you talk he’s gone!
More And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?

This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down (and you’re just the man to do it!), do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!

]]> by: Gribbit http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/01/29/aclu-and-the-wives-of-terrorists/#comment-114634 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:14:04 +0000 http://thewideawakes.org/archives/2006/01/29/aclu-and-the-wives-of-terrorists/#comment-114634 Hmmmm, most of this looks awful familiar... I wonder why? Hmmmm, most of this looks awful familiar… I wonder why?

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