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Far be it from me to play devil's advocate here, or take the role of a loony liberal that seems to be so beloved in the United States, but your replies lack a certain fore and afterthought that can usually be found with a chiefdelphi posting.

The 5 points you stated don’t really seem to add much to your argument that you can blow up those effigies, but they merely reinforce the stubborn stonewalling and "I'm Right No Matter What" attitude that provokes angst, frustration and is arguably the root of resentment among countries that the United States seems to have serious differences with.

Seriously, the most mind boggling of your statements is that putting a terrorist and a president in the same category is sickening. Is that not what we have done with Hussein, Milosevic, arguably any Soviet or Iron Curtain leader? Replace the word President with Prime Minister, Leader, what have you, it is the same situation.

Messing with the secret service? The very fact that you posted that underlines just how draconian the entire DoJ has become. Speak to any immigrant of any visible minority, or to the poor Tibetan monk who was denied any access to a lawyer, put in solitary for over a year and a half for taking tourist shots of New York before being released based on the pleading of the FBI agent who turned him in, in the first place. They can tell you not to mess with the secret service all you want.

The fact that "You Can" doesn’t mean that "You Should" nor "I am Right Because I Can", maybe adding a little dimension to your way of thinking might clear those differences up.