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Letter: What is nonessential freedom anyway?

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006 | 7:36 a.m.

I would like to add a comment to Elbert W. Lemmon's Jan. 22 letter.

He suggests that we give up some "nonessential" freedoms for a little more safety. I personally feel that not being spied upon without just cause as an essential freedom, so I tried to think of some of those freedoms that would be nonessential. I couldn't come up with any.

Maybe someone could come up with a list of some essential and some nonessential freedoms for those of us who just don't get it.

I suspect that if given the right to suspend nonessential freedoms in the name of protecting us, our Big Brother in Washington would find that all freedoms are nonessential.

Michael Plaisted

Las Vegas

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