if the terrorists hate freedom, doesn't decimating the constitution in order to fight them help their cause?

Answer 1

good point, but it is not true they hate the freedom. they hate the foreign policy. by saying it is the freedom they hate, our leaders try to put up a smokescreen for what they are doing and have done.

Answer 2

The Americans are allowing the US Constitution to be weakened for convenience.
Benjamin Franklin would had never supported the wording of what President George Walker Bush's Patriot Acts I and II. He believed in intelligent ones.

Just read before people just write insults.

Franklin's Autobiography: CHAPTER VII. of 81
Wedderburn's abusive Speech. — The Petition rejected. — Franklin dismissed from ... that the design and tendency of them were to subvert the constitution, ...
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/biography/chap07.htm
and

"The American Revolutionaries clearly chose ' LIBERTY ' over security . . ."
This is from
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
... and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, ... Freedom of speech is still cherished in America, but the political correctness ...

Answer 3

I think it emboldens them....they WANT us to be so scared that we will happily give up our freedoms. Ripping apart our Constitution is EXACTLY what they want us to do. I read this and thought I'd pass it on, I thought it says it pretty well:

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17

Today the worst president in U.S. history laid waste to the nation's most important document, as the freshly signed Military Commissions Act of 2006 effectively decimated the right of habeas corpus while authorizing both "harsh interrogations" and military trials of terrorism suspects. "We will look back on this day as a stain on our nation's history," said Democratic senator Russ Feingold, as the ACLU decried the signing as "one of the worst civil-liberties measures ever enacted in American history." But once again the fiercest blast came from MSNBC's heroic harpy Keith Olbermann, who quickly transformed from a bracing tell-it-like-it-is *** kicker to terrifying prophet of doom. "We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens 'unlawful enemy combatants' and ship them somewhere—anywhere—but may now, if he so decides, declare YOU an 'unlawful enemy combatant' and ship you somewhere—anywhere... And if you somehow think habeas corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an 'unlawful enemy combatant'—exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? This president now has his blank check. He lied to get it. He lied as he received it. Is there any reason to even hope he has not lied about how he intends to use it, or who he intends to use it against?" Or, as constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley put it: "The congress just gave the president despotic powers and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to Dancing with the Stars."

Answer 4

How many of your constitutional rights have been violated?
Not a single citizen of this nation has been aggrieved by the Patriot Act or the NSA's programs: many have been killed by the terrorists these laws guard against.

Answer 5

More U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq than the number of people killed in the World Trade Center.

Someone needs to speak up.

Answer 6

Shhhhhhh! Logic scares the republicans and they get nasty
They can't handle reason and logic, bring on the onslaught of nasty remarks.

Answer 7

Do a little homework so you won't be embarrassed.
THE CONSTITUTION HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED.
Terrorists never had any rights.
Support the terrorists all you want. It won't change anything.

Answer 8

you hit the nail on the head....most americans cant see this, though

Answer 9

yes indeed!