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Civil Liberties Quotes on Ameritocracy

From "Gift From The Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.”

“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.”

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to give away
Although it seems like an almost heretical thought, the veterans at TTS believe that the principles expressed in the Constitution, principles we swore on our sacred honor to defend, can coexist with the complex challenges of the world today. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is on the razors edge of that battle and we are proud to support them.

Those principles, however, cannot survive when sections of the populous, regardless of their standing or stature, are immune to the rule of law. When we, as a free nation, are not all held accountable to the same rules, we, as a free nation, cease to exist and the enemies of freedom have triumphed. How quickly we seem to have forgotten that our elected officials are there to do our bidding as a nation. They do not operate on a plane of existence separate from our own. They cannot make up the rules as they go along. Unless we as a nation allow it to happen.

Do enemies exist? Of course. Are there matters of concern to the nation that may momentarily usurp the liberties of an individual? Of course. Do contingencies occur where an action must be taken before specific legal permission has been granted? Of course. At no time, however, can we afford for due process and accountability to be denied to any individual for any reason. For the moment due process breaks down, the moment civil liberties are violated without an express court order, the moment individuals are monitored without warrant or just cause, our society takes a step back from civilization.

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