Neither liberty nor security

To my knowledge--and the six of you who read this page are free to correct me if I'm wrong--this nation has never postponed a presidential election. The United States held a presidential election during a civil war. Yet because of unspecified threats of terrorist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is considering provisions for postponing the November election. It strikes me as odd that the administration and its defenders called it appeasement when Spain, led by a new government following the Madrid train bombing, withdrew its troops from Iraq. But the mere specter of another attack on U.S. soil has this administration--which came to office under dubious circumstances, and has profaned our constitutional protections--considering surrendering to fear our most basic exercise of freedom.

If people choose, out of fear, to stay home on Election Day, that is their right. But it should be their right to choose. Either this president and his administration believes in a free society and representative government, or he does not. As our president would remind the world, there is no longer any middle ground.