What will future historians say if we undermine the founding principle of Due Process of Law in our war on terror?
Will they say that the ideal of government being instituted among free men by consent of the governed in defense of the unalienable human rights to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness, is a failed ideology?
More importantly, will the future be home to more despotic and totalitarian forms of government, if its people DO see the ideals of the U.S.A. as having failed?
2006-10-12 08:16:52 · 15 answers · asked by A Box of Signs 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I think it will not be long before we are going thru roadblocks with soldiers asking "your papers please."
2006-10-12 08:21:30 · answer #1 · answered by breeze1 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that they will say it was a total failure more of a failed period in our history. what is to be done to prevent it from happening in the future, and examine the mistakes that were made and what led to this whole situation in the first place.
I think our founding fathers are completely ticked at the current state of our Government and country. I Don't believe that this is what they had envisioned for the USA. They wanted to avoid Big government bureaucracy and totalitarianism. no one branch of government was supposed to have absolute power, It seems like the Checks and balance system has gotten way off track. Also the current way the government is divided into the two party system and the repercussions of this I feel was not what they intended either. In away this leads to some totalitarianism because the fact that one particular ideology in charge, and can direct the government in certain direction that may not be in accordance to the Constitution and promotes personal agendas. Separation of church and state has to a degree been discarded, freedom of the press has gone so far in the wrong direction that it is a threat to National security. And political correctness and freedom of speech has gone to a ridiculous state that there is no respect for anything.
So to a Degree i do feel that this country ideals are off track. So many of the members of congress are not there for us but for them. They do not do what is in the best interest for the country as a whole. It feels like we the people have no voice because no one is listening. There more worried about things outside the US then inside the US. I do feel as though Our country is still free, its out of control and needs to be taken back to what the founding fathers envisioned for the people and the country as a whole
2006-10-12 08:48:24 · answer #2 · answered by Belladonna 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, fear is the great opponent of freedom. Nothing convinces a free man to surrender his rights more than being afraid. It is ironic that those who have tried truly free societies in the past more or less gave up there freedom to those who would protect them from outside forces threatening their freedom. Thus, they gave up what they cherished willingly because they didn't want it taken forcibly. I see frightening parallels here today.
I don't think the ideology is flawed, it is simply unnatural. The natural order is for certain members of a species to be strive to be dominant. The process by which the dominant figure is selected and then voluntarily surrenders his dominance can only work for so long. Man's instinct will always trump his reason on a long-enough time scale...
2006-10-12 09:30:54 · answer #3 · answered by Mark M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1st u want a war on an abstract undefined concept like terror, then u want a Due Process of Law to justify it??!!!!!! some tall order.
most important part of the question: what will the future say: well it will say that the US 'forced' democracy--a term it did not define or an ideology it was not sure about, down people who did not have access to two square meals. they took life, liberty and happiness of millions to uphold their nebulous ideals.
if u see america as the most representive of democracy, see it also as a system where democracy is failing, and power is getting centralized. the world is already seeing america and its ideals negatively. they might evolve into more humane systems.......there is still hope.
2006-10-12 08:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by slmanl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You really can't say it failed and call it an experiment in the same breath. Democracy like Communism, Socialism and Fascism haven't failed at all because they are still in the trial and error stage.
When referencing history to denounce your specific understanding actually indicates you do not have a good grasp of how history will judge. Short term history has given Jimmy Carter a pretty good shake... Where you around when he was president? Those gas lines where pretty irritating and losing those GI's in a huge failed rescue mission over in Iran was down right embarrassing!
History is a poison pen, Attila the Hun was cast as a bad guy then a good guy and then a bad guy. The point here is clear, are you able to enjoy the life you have, or do you bath in your self created dilemma of how the world should be run.
The ideals of the United States hasn't failed, all things considered, it hasn't even started!
2006-10-12 08:31:48 · answer #5 · answered by ggraves1724 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know what historians will say, since the winners write the history, and right now it looks as though the Straussian Neocons intend to keep us in a perpetual state of war or threat, dismantle our freedoms one by one, and return us to feudalism and rule by divine right. If they succeed, our history books will be tales of Good King George. If the middle class survives and labor revives, and the citizens assert themselves while they may, then history will record the first decade of the 2nd millenium CE as the time when America surrendered to small, petty, greedy and evil little men for the false promise of safety, and the 1000 year Reich of the corporate oligarchs and plutocrats was barely averted.
2006-10-12 08:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
different experiments say it works. yet I trust the assessment of the secular humanism corporation the project with this and any so-talked approximately as controlled test with regards to prayer is that there may be no such element as a controlled test related to prayer. you may in no way divide people into communities that gained prayer and people who did not. the main significant reason is that there's no thank you to renowned that somebody did not receive prayer. How could every physique comprehend that some distant relative became not praying for a member of the team that Byrd had pointed out as having gained no prayer? How does one administration for prayers pronounced on behalf of all of the ill people in the international? How does one ascertain the degree of religion in sufferers that are too ill to be interviewed or in the persons performing the prayers? Even Byrd recognizes those issues and admits that "'organic' communities weren't attained in this learn." [8] when you consider that administration communities at the instant are not accessible, such purported scientific experiments at the instant are not accessible.
2016-10-16 03:05:09 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The future will say whatever is being said today. The world hates US more than ever and sees Americans as barbaric. Unfortunately.
With all due respect, It'd be nicer if you elaborate your questions better besides writing long descriptions which will give the answerer a better idea.
2006-10-12 08:34:36 · answer #8 · answered by Pishisauraus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a good point. If we throw our ideals out the window in our war on terror, then we are one giant leap closer to being the world's biggest military bully and another step away from being the good guys.
2006-10-12 08:28:24 · answer #9 · answered by metatron 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Democratic Republic, which is our form of government is the best government ever formed by men. Our founding fathers REALLY knew what they were doing. The problem is not our form of government. The problem is selfish politicians with immoral standards and corrupt minds. They are the ones hurting our country. People who do not appreciate the freedom that others enjoy and wish to impede it or even abolish it, is what is hurting this country. People like Mr. Newdow, who is trying to make a name for himself by attempting to remove every mention of God in the public arena. These mentions of God mean a lot to me, and they remind me of the freedom that I enjoy in America.
2006-10-12 08:25:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
NO, I believe that within the next 75 years 90% of the world will be some form of democracy
2006-10-12 08:21:10 · answer #11 · answered by rallman@sbcglobal.net 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋