When our most important freedoms are violated then all others go out the window too!

The psychotic and brainwashed pseudo-Islamic fascist terrorists who attacked us on 9-11-2001, the opportunists who took advantage of these attacks in violation of our Great Constitution and all the wonderful liberties, freedoms and human rights we Americans should always be able to experience, cherish and share with those throughout the world who really ask for them, the fools of masses who allow themselves to be swayed one way or another (people who ignore Biden's and Gravel's wisdom and great ideas), are the enemies of every decent noble man and woman!

I'd rather live in a society at some risk of being attacked by external enemies than being destroyed from within by internal enemies. And yet it is a big lie that the only way to relatively strong domestic security is at the expense of even a single one of freedoms, liberties and/or rights.
In fact, only through more freedom and liberty, not less, can we also have greater domestic security!

The same principle applies to social values and norms of conduct. I'd rather live in a society that is sexually liberated, meaning a society where consensual adult relations of all types are not subject to stupid puritanistic laws and where minors are not threatened by sick adults and what minors do with other minors is handled with a respect for the need to avoid discouraging natural behavior, and thus a society that may have a slightly greater risk of social diseases (STDs) than a society that is as unhealthy, uptight, neurotic and self-destructive as we are now! I bet more Americans are dying as a result of living over-cautious lives and lives that are hollow, unsattisfying and unfulfilling, than did at the height of the stupidity that was prevalent in the era of hippies! Unfortunately too many, albeit not all, hippies went too far and mixed unhealthy chemical abuse with sexual liberation, and voila! we've got a society that is mostly boring, unhealthy, overweight and mediocre, caught between two major extreme groups; those who are hypocritical religious extremists and those who are pseudo-liberal chemical abusers!

Clearly a country's welfare is dependent on its political health and a country that is too conservative or pseudo-liberal is politically and socially unhealthy and unfit to advance the entire human species, scientifically, spiritually or sexually! Politics is very much about sex, and issues of tolerance of human differences vis-a-vis sex.

In a healthy country there is room for almost every type of adult: including adults who are totally asexual and celibate, adults who like to attend orgies (preferably ones where safe sex applies), adults who are strictly monogamous, adults who like adults of the same gender, adults who like both, adults who like even older adults, adults who like to change every few years.

As for sick people who would and/or actually do harm minors; the first time they are found guilty (beyond any reasonable doubt) they should be sent to special farm-like closed, minimum security reservations where adult men and women are encouraged to have sexual relations. This place would also be for all non-violent first time law violators who freely choose to participate, since there would otherwise be far too few women to make it work if only people guilty of crimes involving gender abuse of minors. Persons whose crime involved murder would not be eligible for this therapeutic alternative. And once these adult men and women would realize the beauty of healthy adult relationships then they would be eligible after enough time to move out to special communities set up at a distance from most other communities. This would be the cost-effective and humane way to deal with these people who are truly a danger to minors.

Again, the right-wing extremists are trying to create a full-fledged witch-hunt that will eventually be broadened to imprison and punish adults who engage in kinky consensual relations with other adults! Because these Nazis and fascists know that to control the sexual lives of adults is to have the ultimate political and economic power!

The death penalty is another thing we need to get rid of! It present too much of a risk to our Constitutional rights, liberties and freedoms since it can be abused for political and economic power by unscrupulous people willing to intimidate all political opponents with it! Not only that, but even if only 1% of those who are killed by law turn out innocent (the percentage is much higher!) it does too little if anything at all to really dissuade the kind of sick psychos whom it is intended to dissaude. And I'd rather see the real killers suffer life-long prison sentences forced daily to see images of their terrible crimes.

When we Americans restore our country to its most progressive liberal, as opposed to regressive liberal and destructive conservative, values and principles then we will have a country that is far better able to defend itself against external threats and more wlling and able to send out small-group special forces to wipe out the terrorist leaders, cutting of the snake's heads and giving more room and time for the Islamic reform movements to create Muslim societies able to live at peace with the secular world and other religions! Just as the non-Islamic knights of the Crusades eventually realized that they could not afford to fight endless wars against Islamic knights, we definitely cannot afford to have a global clash of civilizations! Islam can be reformed, as it was more or less successfully so in Morrocco and Lybia, and we need to support the relatively moderate reformists in order to defeat extremists, over there and at home too! The Neo-Cons and pseudo-Christian right are just as dangerous and a threat to democracy, to Our Constitution and to humanity as the pseudo-Islamic terrorists who hijack Islam and who seek their own Nazi-like convoluted Global Caliphate!