HERE IT IS

The fight is on regarding the government's use of evesdropping techniques to supposedly monitor the activities of suspected terrorists. Bush says it's legal and that he has constitutional authority to so monitor such persons. The Left has counter punched, led by Johnathan Alter in Newsweek, who claims that the leaker of the classified information about the evesdropping is a whistleblowing hero protecting American citizens against abusive presidential power.

This is probably the central debate in WOT, and it should be welcomed. Undisputedly, terrorists are like a cancer: just like a cancer exploits the body's natural systems, namely cell division, to prepetuate itself and eventually undermine the body, terrorists exploit the freedoms granted in a society such as ours to plan their dastardly deeds and eventually destroy people and buildings for intimidation purposes.

The question is clear: how much freedom are we willing to sacrifice in the name of security. There is no question that fighting WOT in the way Bush wants to, which is probably the proper way in most regards, will potentially curtail certain freedoms for us all. Is it worth it? This debate will test the words of Ben Franklin regarding liberty and security like none other before it.