life that is of value -- family, friends, personal property -- in order to attain the liberty to pursue their own personal life, liberty, and happiness. Often that journey was filled with risk; many times these brave souls risked life itself to get here. Look at these comments! I find the anti-Semitism appalling here (and these times of ours frighteningly similar to the years just before Hitler came into power.) I find the applauding of Rev. Wright as misguided. BUT OUR CONSTITUTION DEFENDS OUR LIBERTY TO SPEAK. And that is our national treasure: a treasure we must not let anyone steal from us. Imagine posting like this in some other parts of our world. We'd be risking our own lives and the lives of our families. Think of life as it was in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Think of life as it is in Fidel's Cuba. (Michael Moore didn't get the real story there. If you don't believe me, ask some Cubans who got on boats and risked drowning and exposure to get out of there.) It's amazing that what begins from a seemingly compassionate desire to help the poor and the disenfranchised so often turns into a despotic government that enslaves that poor. It's a terrible indictment of Marxism -- but that's how it has always played out. When called upon by a world in trouble, Americans have fought bravely and well. Sometimes we didn't want to get involved, and then we were attacked for our isolationism.