United Liberty

In August of 2007, several Ron Paul supporters attended a straw poll in Tuscaloosa, AL.  One of the supporters carried a home-made sign that said, “Got Habeas Corpus?”.  An older gentleman there questioned me about the sign, wanting to know why she was carrying it.  As I began to explain the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, he became increasingly angry and beligerant, claiming that those acts were only to be used for military combatants, and that we believed in “aiding and abetting the enemy” if we didn’t agree with those acts.  He refused to even listen to the fact that the acts were not limited as he believed and that US citizens were just as vulnerable.

Well, I hate to say, “I told you so”, but if he was here, I’d say, “I told you so.”

By now, everyone is aware that Hamas has attacked Israel, though it was Israel itself which broke the ceasefire. I no longer have a television but I know the story is plastered on every major news network because it is also plastered on every political blog and social networking site. There is an entire network of supporters on both sides of the conflict insisting that their side is blameless and that the concerns of the other side are unremarkable. Both sides are spewing enough hyperbole and anger to warrant concern about fistfights breaking out stateside.

The conflict between Israel and it’s “neighbors” in Gaza and the West Bank is a great big mess that apparently has just one solution - according to a large group of foreign policy geniuses in America and Israel: more fighting.