I would just like to know why our government, the ones we are asked to trust everyday (even though it doesn't seem like they trust us very much), is more into being a Superpower rather than to uphold the freedoms that were granted to us more than 200 years ago. It doesn't seem anymore that the people that we elect are worried about our freedoms as much as they are concerned with their own public image. It wasn't apparent to me until quite recently that things were not right with our government, after all of the events that occured in September of 2001. Number one thing being the Patriot Act, why now after 200 years are we just going to give up the freedoms that our ancestors fought for so we could have them. I really don't need the government searching into my past just because I want to check out a library book or am surfing online. Now this is all of my own opinion and isn't meant in any way to be offensive, if you don't like it don't answer it. I know I can't stop you though.
2006-08-09 08:16:25 · 11 answers · asked by tre_loc_dogg2000 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
When has the government, for the past century, shown itself to care about the constitution. And when have the anti-Bush lunatic fringe cared about the Constitution except in the perceived violations by Bush?
If you gave a damn about the constitution, you would see that the greatest violation of our privacy was the creation of the IRS and the income tax. You would see that all welfare - social security, medicare, medicaid, welfare, agricultural and corporate - is a gross violation of both the Constitution and our 4th amendment rights. You would see that the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs have stolen more rights and liberties than the alleged rights erosion of the Patriot act. You would howl about the grossly unconstitutional usurpation of powers by all 3 branches of the government, but especially the tyranny of the activist judges (Forced school busing and Roe v. Wade would be examples of the most egregious constitutional violations).
No your concern for the Constitution and Bill of Rights has been invalidated by your previous failure to care about it until this Democrat talking-point alleged violation.
As for that fictional Bush quote about the Constitution, that is only found on a rabid anti-Bush site - it is a complete fabrication.
2006-08-09 08:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well somewhere along the way in our history some say it was around the great depression we made some changes in our government, things were in the republicans hands right before the great depression and we had a big crash in the economy and the rich became much more powerful then Rosevelt was elected and the economy was so bad they had to bankrupt the country, and start the new deal thats why we had no republicans for forty years in office, after that Reagan was elected and people felt better after Carter he was weak then the corporations became much more powerful under the Bush's being equal with the citizens or greater, they use their money to control politics, just ask yourself why would they spend so much to be elected to a job that doesn't pay so much and why that can lobby and wine and dine our represenatives, they are suppose to work for the people but they seem to have alot of sideline work. Anyways now the corporations and elite are in power and it gonna be there way so get use to it as Chaney say's
2006-08-09 08:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What freedoms have you been denied? What part of the constitution has the government taken from you? I haven't felt that my rights have been violated and if I start surfing Islamict/Militant web sites, spouting off about how I'm going to blow this or that up then I want my government to start keeping an eye on me. If I'm making multiple calls to Arab countries then I want the government to take a look at who I'm talking too. If I'm checking out books on making bombs, destroying buildings, how to organize resistance groups or anything else of that nature then I want my government to start watching what I do, who I talk to and where I go a little bit closer.
The same people that belly-ache about the Patriot Act and the freedoms it supposedly infringes upon are the same people that screamed bloody murder that we hadn't done enough to protect ourselves before 9/11. The same people that howled far and wide about how those people even got in the country. The same people that were horrified that those blood thirsty killers took flying lesson HERE, in the USA and we never knew about it or even suspected anything about it.
Frankly I want my government to do everything within its power to protect us from these murderous swine before they kill another 2,000 people.
Careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
2006-08-09 09:29:34 · answer #3 · answered by Tower of T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 words "Puppet-Master" someone higher than President Bush is pulling the strings telling him what to do, this is no longer the Land of the Free, although it is still the Home of the Brave, this government is out for blood, and they don't care about us here at home they want to spread the evil of Democracy to every country they can. They are more worried about filling their pockets than giving us our freedoms. The first thing the next President has to do is Get rid of the Patriot Act then recite that "It's only a God Damn Piece of paper!" Then get rid of the people that have him under their control and get back to ruling this great nation just as presidents of the past have done, they didnt need to ask for permission to do something they did it and everyone else followed. We need a president like Lincoln, Washington, Jackson someone who's going to stand up for what they believe in and get this nation back to being wealthy again. Have you seen our current debt? haha. This nation now is a joke, we'd rather help out people we don't know then help the people back here at home.
2006-08-09 08:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by [ V ] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact is, we are the World's Superpower. Exactly what freedom, specifically, have you been denied? If you have nothing to hide, why would you care.The government should look at you if you check out 20-30 books on how to blow people up.I would expect and demand they check you out, to save hundreds or thousands of lives.Please explain exactly what freedoms you have personally been denied since the Patriot Act?
2006-08-09 08:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by Kennyp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our current president is on record as referring to the Constitution as "just a g*d*mn piece of paper". Despite his oath of office to support and defend the Constitution.
And the majority of his own party doesn't have a problem with this, or with countless constitutional violations. They consider the document "outdated and obsolete" (to use the words of the current Attorney General).
And we keep electing them back. Congress has a 98% incumbency rate, and a 28% approval rate. What's wrong with this math? And a large percentage of the American people think it's perfectly valid to ignore the constitution, as long as Congress and the Commander-in-Sheik have a good excuse. So, it's purely a matter of allowing the ends to justify the means.
As a result, given that the administration has a political agenda, and the current resources to carry it out, and given that they have no respect for the constitutional principles this country was founded upon, their current course of action makes perfect sense.
It's sociopathic, but it makes sense.
2006-08-09 08:22:39 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do we insist on electing from just 2 political parties? Why don't we institute a national sales tax so that neither party can use the "tax and spend" arguement? It's because we have nothing to believe in. It takes a Pearl Harbor, WTC, or Ft Sumter to get this nation to even feel something. We let the media make our decisions for us, from what we listen to to what we eat to what we believe.
2006-08-09 08:35:00 · answer #7 · answered by sjsosullivan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This one's been asked in all different kinds of forms..answer is the same...some comedian said "why don't we give Iran/Iraq, whoever, our Constitution. It was written by some really smart guys and we aren't using it anymore".
And the reason it is this way is because people sit back and ALLOW it.
2006-08-09 08:23:01 · answer #8 · answered by Mistchf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is because of the fact the founding innovations have been in accordance with morals, i might ask your self why you liberals are greater fascinated in killing unborn infants and merchandising weapons to Mexican drug gangs then fixing the mess the country is in.
2016-11-04 05:30:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because GWB is a tool of the Right-wing.
2006-08-09 08:22:00 · answer #10 · answered by f1le_f0und 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋