Would you rather live under big brothers watch, with each and every minute of your day preselected for you, but staying safe or live in anarchy and be free? How do we find a happy medium between security and liberty? What is your personal theology on how governments should balance the two?
2006-08-23 13:32:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Freedom.
The people on Washington are doing that now, I see more Republicans have stepped away from the party and many local people have switched parties.
2006-08-23 14:14:44 · answer #1 · answered by Steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some famous quotes: "Give me liberty or give me death". "A ship in the harbor may be safe, but that's not what ships are built for." "Live free or die."
And if the "or die" part is the only alternative our government is willing to provide of the two, isn't it time for a change?
2006-08-23 13:37:15 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it has come down to a choice between to things. Live in a new world order fascist police state, or start an all out bloody revolution, now, at the risk of our own lives.
2006-08-23 13:45:57 · answer #3 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"They that can give up essential liberty to
obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither safety nor liberty." - Ben Franklin
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson
guess you can tell were i stand
2006-08-23 13:50:44 · answer #4 · answered by steamroller98439 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom is like a bird, if you put it in a cage, open the door and it will fly away. "Stone Ponys with Linda Rhonstat" about 1968 another time of stress in the U.S. but it is true today. We must fight to protect our freedoms and for the constitution, or we will lose them.
2006-08-23 13:39:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no one answer, the real answer is that a balance is needed between the two. All or nothing approach is a failure no matter which direction.
2006-08-23 13:35:01 · answer #6 · answered by Jon H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Voters can eventually find a balance by becoming informed. Barely half of our population even votes.
2006-08-23 13:36:06 · answer #7 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is safe...40,000 die every year on our roads...cancer, diabetes and heart disease kill millions. There can be no guarantees...never ever been any...the medical community wants you to believe they can do miracles.
But freedom can be possible, as long as we protect it. It doesn't make you rich or healthy or good looking, but it defines what America is about.
Like Coragryph said above "LIVE FREE OR DIE !!"
2006-08-23 14:54:50 · answer #8 · answered by kentonmankle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It needs to be a balance. Freedom! Forever!
2006-08-23 13:33:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just want President Bush to keep me safe and for Rush to tell me what I think.
2006-08-23 13:35:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋