Is Giving up Civil Liberties for a false sense of Safety the New American Way?

Question

US Patriot Act
Warrantless Wiretapping

Answer 1

Face it. We're the new Nazi Germany. There's no difference except we've traded Muslims for Jews and Auschwitz for Guantanamo.

We're not a democracy or a republic. We're a dictatorship, a fascist state, a military junta, an oligarchy. Our vote and our voices don't carry any more weight than they do in Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Libya, the former Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Morocco, North Korea, or Red China. The only difference is our two biggest military dictators dodged the draft and only one of them wears a military uniform once in awhile when he's done something particularly dumb and it's election time.

He hasn't done one half-bright thing yet in six years. He didn't win in 2000 or 2004, and his party won't win in November, but they'll say they did and that will be good enough for us. The whole rest of the world hates the current US government, but who can blame them when 68% of us here at home do, too?

Patriot Act. It's anything but. Washington, Jefferson, the Madisons, Monroe, and Nathan Hale did their very best to create a brave new Nation under God where things one-tenth this bad could never, ever happen again. They told us what to do if it ever happened again, too, but hardly anybody cares. It's easier to park your butt in front of the tube and watch "Survivor" while you watch your family die slowly and painfully.

Patriot Act and Warrantless Wiretaps... Every cemetery in this once-great Nation is full of honorable men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice so that things like this didn't happen "over there." Now not only does it happen over here, but our so-called "president" says that the US Consitution of 1787, that noble Institution that all of those soldiers and true patriots made the ultimate sacrifice for, is "only a god#amned piece of paper!"

We have no freedom, civil rights, liberty, or abilty to pursue happiness. These things no longer apply to the middle class, the working class, or the poor. That's three-hundred-million of us. They only apply to the top 180,000 of us.

If those Patriots of 1776-1981 were still here and alive today, they'd shoot us all for Treason. And I'd thank them for showing me the mercy.

There's nobody I'll ever hate as much as Hitler. But without the Nazis, Hitler would have been a Nobody as Nature had intended. Germany is still shamed sixty years later, and never again will it be a respected world power.

There's a lesson to be learned there somewhere.

Answer 2

Safety the New American Way? What new way, and safety, where will you get that now. You cannot lock yourself up and feel safe.

By voting them into power first time and then in some insane way you brought back the same people who took away your Civil liberties, You dont deserve the right to ask that question or have any safety.

1. Stopped and be searched anyplace,
2. Have your phone taped,
3. Canell all your travel arrangements, too scared.
4. Being an American, you cannot wear your colors with pride

Answer 3

Perhaps those who feel they haven't given up ant liberties do not realise that they can now be arrested and imprisoned just because someone thinks they might be involved with someone who might be a terrorist.
People have been arrested for terrorism because they bought second hand mobile phones.
Not only can they be arrested but they can be held for an indefinite period without trial.
If that's not a reduction in freedom, then I don't know what is. So, whatever those 'who are so patriotic they can't think straight' say, freedoms have been significantly reduced.
And I think everyone agrees, they are no safer as a result
So the answer to your question is simply - yes.

Answer 4

According to those who blindly support everything the Republicans have done while in control of the White House and Congress, yes.
I don't know about anyone else, but I don't feel safer. I thought I was safe on September 10, 2001...but then I woke up the next morning and realized I was wrong. The FEELING of security does nothing...it's the actions that make us secure. Have we caught Osama Bin Laden? Have we defeated terrorism? After 5 years, the answer is still "no."

Answer 5

Anyway any sense of Safety is false. This world is full of risks. If you don't like that step out of it. But I would never be for giving up Civil Liberties

Answer 6

1st, I would like you to show me where in the Patrioit Act that any civil righs are violated.
2nd, You should be more concerned about Echelon that Clinton pu in effect that "warrantless wiretapping".
3rd, I do not see anything wrong with listening to the international phone calls of people that have 2 degrees of seperation to know terrorists.

Answer 7

No we could consistently no longer. we could consistently shield against same and combat people who attempt and take those liberties away. with out them we are far much less risk-free and could be in a dictatorship. No, we are no longer a united states of cowards. there are various brave people scuffling with on your rights and the strategies interior the bill of Rights. there'll consistently be people who % ability and administration, who will seek for to instill worry and then proclaim that they are able to save anybody. And there will be people who do no longer comprehend, who fall sufferer to those worry mongers, and we could attempt and help them to overcome those fears.

Answer 8

Well, you know what Joni Mitchell said - "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone".

I think...I HOPE...that at some point Americans will realize that the price they're paying for a "sense of Safety" is going to bankrupt all of us...

Answer 9

Not the New American Way.

It's the Grorge W. Bush way.

Answer 10

is stopping at a red light an abadonment of our civil liberties?