Poll for Americans: Do you like having your freedom taken away at the expense of 'national security'?

Question

Our facist-like terrorism policies of paranoia are absolutely insane: Infiltrating peace demonstrations & candle light vigils, spying on your phone calls, arresting people with t-shirts merely saying "Veterans for Peace" or "2,245 Dead. How many more?", torturing and detaining innocent people without trials - http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/31/1435225.

The list is very long! How can we possibly say we're 'spreading democracy' when it's slipping away completely in our own country? Really, we're doing the work of the terrorists on ourselves now. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"...

Answer 1

Hell no. I see it and you see it, but other so called "Americans" don't see it! It never seems to amaze me how much "Americans" will let thier selves get walked all over.
I don't know about you, but America is losing its luster...the question is how do we convince people that there is a problem? All of us together can change much of what is wrong (government).

Answer 2

Try getting on the subway here in Toronto the day after not one, not two ... but SEVENTEEN terrorists who were planning on blowing up said subway.

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't thank my lucky stars that Prime Minister Stephen Harper got voted in.

I consider that I am giving up my rights to privacy for personal safety. In a few years, I'll be having kids ... and I really believe people who have children are responsible for giving them safe, healthy homes and lives. Would you bring children into a world where they could be orphaned by hijacked planes, or trains blown up on the way to work?

I'd rather have my wires tapped. That's kind of why I voted for the Conservatives (Republicans for the Americans). So did more than half the country ... oh wait, that's right. That's called *democracy*. Considering we got Stephen Harper after you got George Bush -- and considering Stephen Harper made it abundantly clear he agreed with President Bush, I think you know where at least 50.1% of Canadians' opinions lay. Is it so hard to believe Americans think this way too?

Answer 3

While I think security is important, I think there are some excesses. And selective ones at that. It is ironic that a CIA operative was outed and endangered by the same vice president who advocates all these invasions of privacy. To date He has not been held accountable for this. Yet tax paying citizens who speak out in conjunction with the laws of the land are harshly regarded, ostracized and referred to as agitators. Even a blind man cannot enjoy the freedom of a medical accommodation without being harassed by the president himself. Where is the security? Where is the freedom?

Answer 4

HECK no!

I hate it. There are so many freedoms be lost just so baby boomers can sleep peacefully at night. In 10-15 years this wont even be a free country.

Party doesn't matter. Democrats want to take the freedoms and Repubs arent fighting to maintain the freedom. Only LIbertarians are fighting the fight.

Answer 5

no. I want freedom. This country was founded on freedom, therefore it shouldn't be taken away. I fear Prez. Bush more than those Iraqis. Didn't the war on terrorism originate in Afghanistan ? How did it end up in Iraq ? Hmm, let's see, our president thinks he's the sh*t and can do whatever he feels. Where are those weapons of mass destruction ?

Answer 6

he's interior the ability of doing so! He can no longer fairly take any away, outright , so he has to sneak them in steadily. the obama care ( supposedly wellness care plan is loaded with issues the government will do for us, yet actual this is they're going to let us know what we are in a position to do. as quickly as we sell a house. as quickly as we plant a tree. they're going to take over education. they're going to tell Dr's and different professions what they ought to do. Jobs they'd get us. they are interior the ability of taking up the coverage co top now, If obama gets in , he will have the skill to do as he pleases and there'll be no combating him as he won't ought to difficulty approximately re-election. like I suggested he has began the approach , yet whilst he gets in a 2nd term . pay attention! The stimulus plans have helped get a initiate interior the motor vehicle marketplace. The eighty or extra govt orders he has signed has given him an inroad to extra disastrous issues he can do, with a 2nd term. he's a democrat , yet in assessment to the different Liberal president before him. he's using that social gathering to further his time table, and it ain't good. he's black, yet do you think of for a minute his targets are the comparable with the aid of fact the black leaders that got here before him, Like Martin Luther King. who's targets is he fairly merchandising, "targets From His Father" a Kenyan Citizen , no longer from a loose us of a.with the aid of fact of this our fore fathers wanted the president to be a U.S. citizen so he might have the yank Patriotism, to confirm our us of a prevail. As lincoln suggested , we've extra to concern from with in , then from without! Why can no longer Liberals see what he's actual doing to the Grand previous united statesA. upload to demetri. He hasn't executed yet what you indexed, provide him a 2nd term and each little thing you suggested will ensue. I forgot he needs to neuter the U.S. via removing our nuclear weapons, does that make us vulnerable, YOU guess! he additionally needs to make our defense force smaller, as quickly as that occurs , we are long previous! upload back. what a surpassed off to all the marketing campaign provides he made, isn't that why you liberals voted for him? The exchange! He has no longer executed a style of issues he promised and a huge one became the transparency his place of work might placed obtainable! yet he has been the main secretive president EVER! Why? ought to or no longer it is he's as much as no good! good rationalization for secreacy!

Answer 7

To answer your question: no I do not like trading freedom for national security.
Also...
THe United States is NOT a Democracy...IT is a Republic....Listen....The United States is a Capitalist Republic....Israel is not a democracy either yet we support them...Lebenon IS a democracy yet we allow our israeli friends to kill that democracy to create an Islamic Republic...it is just about to happen....Currently USA is not fighting for Democracy or Freedom.

Answer 8

Don't get me wrong, 9-11 was a tragedy of proportions not seen in this country since Pearl Harbor. However, that being said, I find it sad that all it took was two fallen buildings and (literally) one millionth of its population killed to make America's ideals implode.

Answer 9

I agree. I'm not American, Howard is a mini Bush, following closely in his footsteps. I can't stand the fear campaign they've led. Gotta love power, greed and vote buying hey?!

Answer 10

I would like for you to answer me one question. In the last five years what rights have personally been taken from you. I wish for you to give me specifics of your case and what has happened to you. Don't give me some obscure law or it has this effect. I wish to know what rights YOU, have specifically lost or had taken from you. I want to know the details of how you lost that right and I want to know specifically how your life has been changed by this loss that you claim. I don't want to hear about the diminishment of others or of other obscure things. How have you specifically been affected????