will you let the goverment hear ur phone conversations, monitor what you surf in the internet, and even search ur house if they suspect you of something? up to what extent?
2006-10-09 08:17:48 · 19 answers · asked by balanced112 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm more afraid of DC drivers, to tell you the truth. I was living just outside of DC during 9/11 and the anthrax scares and the sniper attacks. It's scary, but not that scary. You are so much more likely to die in a car wreck than a terrorist attack.
I am not willing to have my country basically destroyed by giving up my civil liberties just to buy a false sense of security. Our great thinkers have always told us that our country can't be overthrown from without; the danger was always with those within. Removing our civil liberties destroys our Constitution, which destroys our country and our way of life. That is far scarier to me than the miniscule chance that I'd die because of a terrorist.
2006-10-09 08:22:44 · answer #1 · answered by random6x7 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most terrorism is conducted by the secret services, primarily CIA/MI6/Mossad/ISI, who between them are responsible for 9/11, 7/7, Madrid train bombing, Bali bombing, Mumbai train bombing, Lockerbie air disaster, and loads more.
What the war on terrorism is all about is to keep the people frightened enough so that they give up their freedoms in exchange for ill-perceived security.
The Patriot Act and further acts and presidential signings have now resulted in the fact that ANYBODY can be arrested for no reason at all, then told that they are a suspected terrorist, and imprisoned for an unlimited period with no recourse to law.
They can even be shipped off to a foreign country and tortured!
This has happened already, and it will happen again. It can happen to YOU.
The idea of terrorism is to promote the agenda of the Illuminati/New World Order, who control the governments, and their secret services. That agenda is to take control of the entire world, remove over half the population, and reduce the freedoms of the remainder to the levels of slavery
An Illuminati Primer
http://www.rinf.com/news/nov05/illuminati.html
Rothschild/Rockefeller
The Architecture of Modern Political Power
http://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/fourthreich/rockroth.html
2006-10-10 08:34:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone dear to me is murdered or left in a dangerously injured state, I don't give more weight to it being done by a foreign group than by the neighbor next door. It's the crime that's hurtful, not the group behind the crime. Our dead are still dead.
To give up freedoms is a terrorist act to me. It is terrorism to know that authorities can break and enter my home without probably cause with papers to describe what they are searching for.
It is terrorism to have to submit to pat downs before entering a Bob Dylan concert in a minor league stadium.
It is terroism to have to discard my water bottle, needed on a hot day before watching a football game because my Dansani water may be a threat.
It is terrorism to have to urinate before an audience.
It is terrorism to submit to torture because someone may fear I am a terrorist.
My ancestors were a part of this American revolution. I know the original Americans demanded this country be different from whence they came.
The bill of rights had to be added before all 13 colonies would sign on to this great experiment of democracy. Without it , we no longer have America.
Our freedoms are what make America what it is. Without them, there is nothing to set us apart. We have become what we feared.
2006-10-09 15:38:11 · answer #3 · answered by Dee M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually I'm not afraid of terrorists causing the government to infringe upon my freedom as I am what the 1984phobes would like to have you believe. They are so worried about the sky falling they would keep the government from catching the guys that would really hurt the US.
Hey get this straight. I don't care if they monitor my cell phone, regular phone, internet sites, or E-mails. They will waste a lot of time and effort. If the police want to search my house it's fine with me. There's nothing illegal in it.
I'd probably draw the line at a body cavity search *LOL* I'm not that kinky!
2006-10-09 15:30:15 · answer #4 · answered by namsaev 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not scared of Terrorists. They need to blow something else up so we can get on to killing all of them.
The govt wire tap is for foreign calls to / from suspected terrorists phone numbers. If you call Osama then the govt will be watching you. They are not going to listen in on your call to Gramma in Florida
As long as they keep to foriegn websites and phonecalls. Read the laws that get passed. Do not rely on the media or blogs to tell you what is happening. Find out for yourself.
2006-10-09 15:36:11 · answer #5 · answered by rjf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More scared of my own government. If we are to give up our freedoms, what makes us any different from the other countries out there?
I have nothing to hide, BUT, the government also has no REASON to be invading my privacy. It is all about check and balances on government power. Right now, there are no checks and really no balance. At some point in time, we have to stand up and say enough is enough.
2006-10-09 15:29:16 · answer #6 · answered by William B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not scared of Terrorists and I'm not willing to yield any of my civil Rights or constitutional rights because it won't increase my sense of security, in fact it will decrease it.
George W. Bush et. al have harmed America both at home and abroad with this very Hermann-Goering-esque game they have going on -
"convince people they're under attack, then denounce the pacifists for lack of Patriotism"
Bush makes Joe McCarthy's contribution to American History look
very timid by comparison.
I'm not falling for it. I feel more threatened by our own government than I do by a bunch of Fundamentalist Islamic Keystone Kops.
2006-10-09 15:25:35 · answer #7 · answered by Clout 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I will not let the Govt. tap my phones/internet. Nor will I let them search me without a warrant or arrest me without one too. These liberties were fought and won by many veterans and fallen heroes. For someone to let the Govt. take them away when it will not make you safer is just a way of pissing on their graves.
Eisenhower said "if you wanna be safe go to prison, there you get fed, you get clothed and you are safe, the only thing lacking is freedom".
2006-10-09 15:22:11 · answer #8 · answered by Enterrador 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not live in fear of terrorists. I resent the idea of giving up basic freedoms and being pushed towards a totalitarian state because of other people's paranoia or desire for control. To my way of thinking, it means that Osama bin Laden was won in changing America's way of life.
2006-10-09 15:26:54 · answer #9 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not scared of terrorists, and I'll let the government do what it needs to do to find them, as long as it doesnt violate the constitution.
Contrary to the laws that activist judges are creating (which is NOT their job) wiretapping phones does NOT violate the constitution.
Not only are phones not mentioned in the constitution (for the obvious reason that they didn't have them) but privacy acts specifically ALLOW the CIA and NSA to wiretap without warrants. Look in the legislation for yourself.
2006-10-09 15:29:30 · answer #10 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋