Our country now subjects 95 year old women, and young children--American citizens-- to invasive searches.
At the same time, it wanted to try terrorists in civilian courts.
Why do we treat citizens like terrorists, and terrorists like citizens?
"One hears that, in foreign lands, people are now learning to swim, lying on the floor, with the aid of equipment. In the same way, one can become a Catholic or Protestant without experiencing life at all--by reading books in one's study. But to become Orthodox, it is necessary to immerse oneself all at once in the very element of Orthodoxy, to begin living in an Orthodox way. There is no other way."--Fr. Pavel Florensky
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A government that is willing to (for example) torture anybody at all is no less willing to torture you. Citizen or not.
The Constitution is only a piece of paper if nobody respects it.
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