Keith's Response

I wanted to start off by saying that that was one crazy assembly the other day. It got really out of hand fast with the whole dressing up argument, but it was really fun to hear every ones input on the subject.

I get very confused when we start to talk about our civil liberties. I understand that we have freedoms until they start to effect others, but I have a very difficult time seeing that line. There is always someone breaking the rules for one reason or another. The rules were set up in the first place to insure that we would b able to keep the freedoms we have now, but why would they make the rules if people were not breaking them in the first place. Civil liberties are more of a guide line to help us along and make sure our society doesn't run itself into the ground. I would give up any of my civil liberties in an instant if I thought it was the right thing to do. If there was no freedom of speech but everything we heard was true it would not be as big a deal if there was no freedom of speech and all news was bias or censored. You can weigh the pros and cons of giving up freedoms for a lifetime but in the end of the day I would have to be placed in a situation where my freedoms were being challenged before I can tell you whether I would give them up or not.