2006-08-27 09:07:56 · 11 answers · asked by oaksterdamhippiechick 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
VERY!!!
The reason I say this is because the last two elections were disgustingly contaminated with civil rights abuses. It is vital to our society in order to be able to continue to say that we are a fair and righteous one that we correct this.
2006-08-27 09:19:03 · answer #1 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I want to clear up a few things since many people don't know the difference between a civil liberty and a civil right so perhaps you can clarify which it is you are talking about.
Civil liberty-are citizen freedoms, passive protections against government intrusions into our lives
Civil rights-are protections from other citizens, or the government activly trying to protect us from eachother, and making sure we all have the same PRIVILAGES
So i'm not sure which worries you more but make sure you understand the difference.
2006-08-27 16:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by rideredalways 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly.
The individual slave, property of one master, is assured an existence, however miserable it may be, because of the master’s interest. The individual proletarian, property as it were of the entire bourgeois class which buys his labor only when someone has need of it, has no secure existence. This existence is assured only to the class as a whole.
The slave is outside competition; the proletarian is in it and experiences all its vagaries.
The slave counts as a thing, not as a member of society. Thus, the slave can have a better existence than the proletarian, while the proletarian belongs to a higher stage of social development and, himself, stands on a higher social level than the slave.
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
2006-08-27 16:08:55 · answer #3 · answered by W E J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Needs to be in context. I am willing to give up some civil rights for more important issues, like national security. It's pretty useless having a right you can't use because you're dead.
2006-08-27 16:09:53 · answer #4 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Civil rights are important but if they are going to be exploited by those who would destroy us we would end up with none at all. Since I am neither a subversive nor a drug dealer I'd rather the government listens in on my very mundane conversations now so that I don't have to wear a Burka later.
2006-08-27 16:18:51 · answer #5 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Central. The heart of America resides in our minority population now that white America in employed making bombs and selling bibles. So lets keep up the good work but retrain the white people to do work that in environmentally sound and existentially helpful to mind, body and soul.
2006-08-27 16:20:58 · answer #6 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very important, Benjamin Franklin said;
Pne who would give up essential freedoms for a small amount of security deserves neither.
Freedom isn't free, sometimes we have to pay for it, sometimes in blood.
2006-08-27 16:12:40 · answer #7 · answered by deltaxray7 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Screw civil rights. If we were not given equality we would have killed all of the whites so things worked out when they should have.
2006-08-27 16:18:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
National security is # 1. Civil rights do no good to dead people!
2006-08-27 16:18:29 · answer #9 · answered by Bawney 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
VERY IMPORTANT!! If we didnt have them who knows what we would be like. But the Slavery one is the most important!
2006-08-27 16:11:03 · answer #10 · answered by catiebugg11 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋