This is an honest attempt at clarification. One of the reasons I feel I have grown to be more conservative, is because I am tired of big government. Every platform that a conservative official stands on has something in there about 'Big Government'.
However, the Patriot Act is basically forcing government into our everyday lives. Wiretapping (I know about the ruling from today), illegal search and seizures (what happens at airports now, for example), arrests without warrants...so on and so forth.
It seems to me that in jumping on board with this stuff, you are not only giving up basic rights - you are giving up your principles.
I DO agree that if you don't have anything to hide, don't worry. The problem with that is how do we know that abuse of power won't come in to play? Will the patriot act go away once the war on terrorism is destroyed and islamofacists are either dead are good, white christians?
It just seems paradoxical and I was hoping for clarification. Thank you guys!!
2006-08-17
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