Civil Liberties Don’t Matter Much ‘after you’re dead,’ Cornyn Says On Spy

[Guaranteed]

Case

By Jonathan Allen

Senators launched new salvos in the battle over national security and civil liberties yesterday as recent revelations of domestic spying continued to color the chamber’s stalemate on an extension of the anti-terrorism law known as the Patriot Act.

“None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former judge and close ally of the president who sits on the Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who has led a bipartisan filibuster against a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, quoted Patrick Henry, an icon of the American Revolution, in response: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

He called Cornyn’s comments “a retreat from who we are and who we should be.”


<more>

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/122005/patriot.html

--------------------------------------

And isn't this just SUCH a great message to send to our troops overseas, who are supposedly fighting for the freedom of another country?

Yes- this is true patriotism, true leadership from the Republicans. I've never been prouder- to be a Democrat. :)