How does everyone feel about daily surveilance? Would you trade your security for your freedoms? In this scary time of terrorist attacts and nuclear/chemical/biological weapons...do you feel it's more important to fight for your freedoms, meaning you have to give up some security...or give up your freedoms and let the government watch everyone to prevent another attack?
I'm curious. Thankyou!
2006-11-02 14:35:34 · 8 answers · asked by hvjhv 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I'm not talking about airport security. I'm talking bout on camera when you walk outside (which you are). Or cameras ticketing you on roads where there is no traffic. We are becoming a policing society that's idiot-proofing everything. i.e. politicians dumb down their campaigns now. The public isn't expected to know political issues. This just doesn't feel like America, land of the free. And I'm not trying to hide anything, I just don't want to live in a kind of socity where my DNA is on file and I'm on camera whenever I walk out my front door.
2006-11-02 15:02:16 · update #1
...and YOU and YOU and YOU and YOU and YOU...oh, hell, EVERYBODY! Did you know that there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people in Great Britain?
We HAVE no more freedoms, folks. George Orwell must be rolling around in his grave.
2006-11-02 23:56:44 · answer #1 · answered by J.A.R. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's always been a balance between security and freedoms. I'm a good driver. I could probably handle speed limits way higher than what we have in this country, but I gladly give up the hope of getting somewhere faster for the security of knowing that others must also drive at a speed they are more able to handle.
I know some will consider this example a stretch from the various degrees of privacy that we're all going to be giving up, but there is no absolute "right" that doesn't carry with it some security risk.
I think that I'm happier NOT having had another 9/11 even though it's a bit slower getting on planes and being in other crowded public places.
2006-11-02 22:53:34 · answer #2 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate when people sya "if your not doing anything wrong don't worry about it" OK dude so like when you have a girlfriend and you happen to meet the girl of your dreams and you hook up and it is in your girls e-mail the next day...i'sure you would change your mind.......I agrre that border security is all nice and dandee...for that matter why not go back to isolationism .....and yes it is very scary how the government is taking our rights that have nothing to do with terrorism......i have read most of the patriot act and i got scared on the first pages...remember this is america..we have the right to PRIVACY....we have the right to do something wrong if we choose to knowing that if caught we have to pay a consiquence.....laws are ment to be enforced when they are discovered being brooken ...not enforced like a police state. where does terrorism fit in with your house being raided by armed quasi military cops for a traffic warrant...or the government tracking spending...tapping phones......held without knowing the charge.......etc..
2006-11-03 02:14:45 · answer #3 · answered by myxodo05 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we need to fight for our freedoms that's what our forefathers did, and it's up to us to preserve them. I think we either overdo or underdo most everything, it's one extreme to the other and no happy medium. I think we need to put some securities and laws in place for safety but laws we all agree on.
Example, yes we need security at airports for everyones safety. I think there should be a sep airport just for international travelers and that one be much more closely watched. I think anyone living in another country and wants to come here should have to put in an application in for the time they want to come and be screened unless they have lived abroad for the US and are coming back home.
2006-11-02 22:50:20 · answer #4 · answered by Tina of Lymphland.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With that whole patriot act it seems that way. Nothing like taking away peoples personal freedoms and try to pass it off as "protecting citizens from terrorism" its a really good scare tactic to get people to support it.
2006-11-02 23:12:32 · answer #5 · answered by divochka79 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anybody likes being watched
especially when it is as unnecessary as what Bush is doing
2006-11-02 22:41:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wouldnt be a Big Brother, if he wasn't always watching now would he? After all, then it would be "Little Brother" and we all hate to watch our siblings.
2006-11-02 22:43:33 · answer #7 · answered by * Deep Thought * 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if your not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about
2006-11-02 22:38:04 · answer #8 · answered by Rusty 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋