This happens the most at the local level. When it comes to alot of things. Approval of tasers, internet filters at libraries, crackdowns on headshops that sell tobacco pipes, crackdowns on porn shops, crackdowns on strip clubs etc. It is sad that it should have to move up to a federal or state court for some of these ordinances to be declared unconstitutional. Be wary of local politics sometimes. Civil liberties are important.
2006-10-27 09:07:12 · 9 answers · asked by cannonball 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Agreed 100%! Except, I'll need agun when we finally get to martail law, and I really can't keep my kids safe like that...
Anyway, as long as they don't try to give me a national ID Card (well, they've got the protoypic Driver's License and so forth),
and as long as they don't try to implant that chip my family member always raves on about,
it's safe to agree with you.
2006-10-27 09:37:56 · answer #1 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was on board with your headline until I read the description below. Okay, head shops . . . I'll give you that one. They can get away with saying it's for tobacco although you and I both know that's not what it's for. The rest of it . . . keep those regulations coming. I don't know of anywhere in the constitution where it says we have a right to porn and that it's okay to expose children to it. And what's wrong with tasers? If I was a criminal, I'd much rather be hit with a taser than a .357.
2006-10-27 09:15:15 · answer #2 · answered by BigRichGuy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People have been using these bogus arguments because they can get away with it. That's the very reason that the founding fathers drafted the Constitution. Whenever someone decides that some crime is just so bad that we need to circumvent that Constitution then it's over.
2006-10-27 09:20:41 · answer #3 · answered by Jabberwock 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass
And we apparently can endure a lot of crap...
2006-10-27 09:30:03 · answer #4 · answered by Barry 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think the majority of people enjoy those liberties. but the majority of people don't vote. and the minority who do vote, vote for people who " go with the flow."
poloticans don't have our best interests in mind. the only care about keeping there jobs and getting rich.
the reason: american apathy.
the american slogan is not " freedom" it's " let's go shopping"
2006-10-27 09:21:54 · answer #5 · answered by sapace monkey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yah, civil liberties are important, but we as a society have deemed some things a great enough threat to have our civil liberties infringed upon.
2006-10-27 09:11:28 · answer #6 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because people are sheep
2006-10-27 09:08:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
americans like to overreact to everything ... it gives meaning to their pathetically boreing lives i think ..
2006-10-27 09:14:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2006-10-27 09:21:18 · answer #9 · answered by White Man 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋