text: why would liberals rather be dead than give up their privacy?   paulofhouston - ."i have never met a drug addict who wasn't a liberal." do you know who rush limbaugh is? how about george w. bush - arrested twice for drunk driving? alcohol is a drug, too.  as for me- i live in the "live free or die" state, literally and figuratively.  if they "hate us for our freedoms" like neo-cons are so quick to say, do they think that by taking away our "freedoms", maybe they'll hate us less?  “honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us” - thomas jefferson  my social security number was one of the millions stolen from the va. why the hell should i trust the government with my personal information if they can't take proper steps to protect it?