How do you feel about the LA and New York times helping out Al Qaida?

Question

They publish the way our government tracks money to and from terrorists. Now the terrorists know our policy and they will change their ways of doing transactions, so now we can't track them. They are putting American lives in danger.

yes there is freedom of the press. But out of respect for the safety of the American people, they should not reveal secrets on how the US rounds up terrorists you idiot.

Answer 1

I feel like they should be punished. Hopefully, this time they have gone too far, and will be forced to implement some changes--they should never have printed that story. But, they are so power-bloated, they don't feel that anything they do is wrong, no matter how clearly wrong it is. I believe in a free press--but a RESPONSIBLE free press. The LA Times and New York Times are irresponsible.

Answer 2

The troubling part of both question and answers is that you set up a strawman for them to attack, meaning your question implies that news papers are assisting terrorist organizations.

That is misleading and not the real issue at heart. The real issue is that the government tracks everyone.

This is the issue at heart the right of people to privacy, versus the right of government to collect infromation without probal cause for an infinite amount of time.

Why infinite because you can not get a surrender or peace treaty against the war on terror, because terror is a tatic not a nation state.

The questinon again remains if the media does not report on the government and its potential deminising of the 4th amendment rights along with the Superme Courts conclusion that privacy is implicit.
At what point does the press remain quite, the press has an obligation to provide people with facts, so they can choose thier leaders or hold them accountable, the press is the fourth estate....without them how can we protect our freedoms...


At what point does america stop being the democracy and begin to look like the countries invade to give freedom too.

The question is not freedom of the press but the obligation of the New papers to tell, warn, alert, save, rally, inform the people that there is a serious danger looming not from terrorist but from our own government.

Again the real question is shouldn't newspaper do thier job and serve the people when government attempts to overreach it power especially in a perpetual war with no end.

Answer 3

How do you feel about the press informing the general public in what way their freedoms and privacy are being breached? The press's number one duty is to informing the public of the truth. More people have been killed in Iraq today than were killed on 9/11(civilians, members of the press and soldiers included). If the goal was to stamp out terrorism-a threat to human lives the world over, the goal has already failed as more people have been killed trying to stamp out terrorism. In other words the attempt to stamp out "terrorism" is more deadly than "terrorism" itself. So in fact "terrorism" is less of a threat to mankind than those who use it as a means to frighten the American public into accepting measures that effectively make them a slave to Big Government. Remember it's government by the people for the people, not people by government for government. Watch the two videos I have included below. Do not let fear be used against you, because that is exactly what is happening. At the end of the day you an judge any man or group by the results of their actions not the reasons they give for their actions. By that principle the U.S government(Bush and his thugsters) is the biggest terrorist on the planet.

Answer 4

They've already changed their tactics stupid. It wasn't the publication that done gave it away.

The publications of the method used is moderately intelligent, but nothing of a secret. Information is information, and we as americans need all the info we can get to protect ourselves. Should we not tell people about internet scams anymore? It might make the scammers change their tactics.

You can watch History channel and learn all about smart bombs, why? cause it's OLD technology, your eyes would bug out at the ACTUAL sensitive information Mr. President looks at every morning over his Rice Krispies. (no pun intended.)

Answer 5

America has done things on the QT for years and years. That's
how we catch the bad guys. That's why we have "intelligence
organizations". Pres Bush had to fly to Iraq secretly so the LA
and New York Times didn't tell our enemy over there he was
coming. I'm sure, if they'd known, they would have even told
them what time he'd arrive so they could shoot down his plane.
It's insane what the news media is doing these days. It used to
be called treason........but treason is not in the media's dictionary
anymore. What a shame.

Answer 6

Just imagine if it was 1942 during WWII. What would FDR do? You can bet large numbers of people would be put in prison for such a high treasonous act.

Liberals will hide behind the first amendment soley because it helps to make bush look bad. If clinton was president, it never would have happened.

Answer 7

Now you have some inkling of how the British felt when the American government and Irish Americans were supporting the IRA. At least you don't have allies supplying them.

Answer 8

So the government would while under the pretense of war..and I say pretense because we have been at war on drugs forever now they just changed it to war on terror because we are no longer at war with Iraq...anyway because of this alleged war they now can without warrant monitor your phone calls check your finances imprison you without due process..not only that but they now are attacking a free press...which rights do you think we should be allowed to hold on to if any?

Answer 9

The newspapers don't print things that put us in danger. What they report is activities that the government does in the name of protecting us, but actually violates our basic rights of privacy and treatment under the law, without proof that it actually would have any affect on the "war on terrorism" - if such a war actually exists...

Answer 10

Exactly, da rak. Freedom of the press/speech does not mean you are entitled to endanger people's lives. And then there is that matter of ethics.

No, cantcu, you're full of sh___t and an embarrassment to the armed forces and to those who died protecting the country like my uncle.