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that times change, and that our laws must change to meet new challenges. The Constitution is a living document, and its liberal interpretation is a swell way to reshape society. Fine by me, but that means we could just as logically go in the other direction. In creating our brave new world, let us not forget that freedom is what makes our society unique. It is ours only if we constantly insist that it is ours.
The Russians, I have been told, have a dandy constitution, with human rights and all sorts of good things. They just make exceptions in cases where the collective good is officially deemed at odds with the individual. Seems to happen a lot over there. But the crime rate is low, what with a policeman on every corner, armed with a machine gun.
What is safer than a tiger in the zoo? He never misses a meal, he gets the best medical treatment, and his cage is clean and climate-controlled. Still, he paces back and forth. The wide expanses of his natural home are filled with danger, but you know he longs for the freedom that he left there. He was lured into his trap by a choice bit of beef, the proverbial free lunch.
Maybe I am paranoid, but I wonder what the United States of America would be like in one hundred years? Two hundred years? Will its citizens be as free then as we are now? Maybe so, and maybe not. But if, in that new world, we have become a totalitarian state, I doubt it will be because we were invaded. No. It will be because we have compromised our freedoms, little by little, for what we perceived to be the common good of all society.
BILL FITZSIMONS Flint Hill
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