What I can't believe is that so many people can throw around concepts such as "civil liberties" so flagrantly.

The civil liberties that groups like the ACLU are criticizing the U.S. government over weren't granted to us by Congress or any court. They were granted to every U.S. citizen by the Constitution of the United States of America. If you or anyone else wants to drop your civil liberties and grab your gun then fine, but I don't.

I think that what these terrorists did was a violation of human as well as civil rights. The men responsible need to be brought to justice. But if that means that the government has to trample any U.S. citizen's inalienable civil rights then they can forget it.

The United States cannot in any instance abridge the freedom of any innocent citizen for any reason. No one is allowed to take the rights granted by the Constitution away from us — not terrorists and not the federal government.

These terrorists resent us for the freedom we are granted by the Constitution. Why play into their hands by doing what they cannot and will not ever be able to do -- take our civil liberties away from us.