Stardate 20011010.1859 (Crew, this is the Captain): I'm watching a baseball game. One of the ads was a teaser for tonight's news on a local TV station; I've got the sound muted. But the video was disturbing enough: it was film of peace protesters, with a subtitle "The enemy within?"
No. They are not an enemy. They may be wrong, they may even be fools, but they are Americans exercising their civil right to have and publicly express an opinion about the political decisions being made by this country. Free speech must protect unpopular speech or it is an illusion. That is part of what we're fighting this war to preserve, so let's not ourselves destroy what our enemies cannot. (discuss)
