What do people think..are we safer since 9/11, or not?

Question

did anyone hear the report about suitcase nukes in washington D.C. and New York? A journalist interviewed some terrorist leader, can't remember his name, and he said like"we have no time frame for the attack, just waiting for orders." The same one who ordered muslims out of the areas.

Answer 1

I read on one site that there are five 60-lb bombs waiting in five cities in America right now with sleeper cells.

Paranoia, or truth?

Answer 2

Yes, more terrorists are being created, because none of the government or CIA responsible for the terrorism of 9/11 have yet been brought to justice, but they have alienated so many others who were previously peaceful, that more terrorism occurs.
One very significant point is the depleted uranium in Iraq.
The radiation from the DU shells is causing so much pain and anguish to Iraqis that many of them know they are doomed to die from the cancers thy have caught from the radiation.
So, in order to get rid of the pain, they don't mind killing themselves, and may as well take some of those whom they see responsible with them.
This is why there are so many suicide bombers - because so many people are affected by radiation from the DU weapons, including American soldiers.

Answer 3

HELL NO. We've pissed a lot of people off since then by acting like crazy a$$holes and invading a country that had NOTHING to do with what happened to us. We've wasted so much $$ and military resources on Iraq, and now our military is stretched so thin that if something catastrophic happened somewhere else we would either be screwed or reinstituting the draft. We really have downgraded our image to the world so much and that doesn't help our safety either.

Answer 4

I heard the same report. The guy said the nukes were smuggled over the mexican border. Wouldn't surprise me with the "border control" problems. Generally I think we are safer. People are more aware of their surroundings, but who knows, if they are really here already it doesn't seem to me that it would be that hard for them to set them off. I hope not, but I guess it's possible.

Answer 5

I would like to think that we are safer since 9-11.

Answer 6

Is this question for real? We have less money, less resources and more security? Terrorist totals as a whole have increased to a drastic amount! Noone is safer!

Answer 7

The terrorists were going to be done after 9/11. But now we have spawned a whole new group of them, and they will stop at nothing to resist us and bring us harm. Way to go, Bush!!!

Answer 8

"He who would sacrifice liberty for a little bit of security deserves neither and will lose both." -- Ben Franklin

Thanks America, for making your votes count. A light in the history of the world as bright as the Greek and Roman democracies and republics has been snuffed out.

Answer 9

I don't feel safer, in fact I feel less safe! everyday comes news of more people dying in the Middle East, or an act on one of our allies. I believe we have something to us. I wish it wasn't that way, but that's what happens when people elect a jack*** for president.

Answer 10

You know that Benjamin Franklin is alleged to have written or at least published a book in 1759 in which he said that, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." As with much of what Franklin uttered these words hold much truth. Fear is a great source of power. All dictators know that if you instill fear into the population you are trying to control, you will continue to control them. Stalin did it. Hitler did it. Castro continues to do it today, He tells his people again and again "The Americans are coming." Great leaders in our history sought to calm fears, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Is how Roosevelt dealt with the terrible problems of the Great Depression. They told us that we were a great country, with great people, and that we would eventually overcome that which was pressing us from outside. George Washington warned us in his farewell address to fear the oppression that comes from inside this country. He warned us to be ever vigilant of our own government, because he knew what could come from corrupt and coniving governments. The constitution was written as it was to help prevent one branch of government taking over the other. Checks and Balances is the official term for it. But if you look and see what we have done recently, and the power that we have given our current leaders in the name of security it is very distressing to true Americans who understand history and know how and what we fought for so long ago. No we are not any safer then we were, because now we have to be concerned about what our own government is doing. Why do we study history? So as to not have to relive it. Hitler was elected into the German government in 1932. He wanted more power, and planned to do it by instilling fear into the German people. In Late January of 1933 his henchman had the Reichtag (German Capitol Building) in Berlin burned to the ground. A 16 year old retarded boy was captured and tried for the crime of burning that building down, because they said he was a "Communist." Hitler knew the German people feared Communism, because of what the saw it do to Russia only 15 years earlier. The boy was convicted and beheaded 10 days after his verdict. The people and the Bundestag (German Parlament) voted Hitler great powers of interigation and suspended civil rghts for greater security, they got neither. Think of how close that parrallels what we have been offered by men who seek such significant control. The Barbarians looked at the walled cities of the Roman Empire and desired what opulance they had. It took hundreds of years, but eventually they broke in and eventually had none of the opulance, but the Empire was destroyed,- From within with greed and corruption allowing the Barbarians to finally enter their walled cities. Could history be repeated? The lesson is never be less then what we fought for in the original Revolution. It is to presious to be given for a promise of more security. Security comes from our people, not from our government. We will overcome, but not because we have a more Fascist government.