How much freedom are you willing to give up in order to stay "safe"?

Answer 1

Me? Absolutely none.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay (1872)

The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone. – Thomas Rudmose-Brown

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. – Alexis De Toqueville

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken

Answer 2

I think we should all be sent to maximum security prisons where we can be watched 24 hours a day by men with guns who tell us what we can and cannot do, and shoot or torture us if we disagree. We should have absolutely no freedom whatsoever, just kill foreigners and get poorer and poorer while our leaders lie to us and have sex with gay men for money (or take the cheapass way and have cybersex with boys for free).

Wait a minute, I'm not a Republican. Scratch that answer and let's do just the opposite. We were much more safe before these idiots took control.

Answer 3

Assume you are talking about the current war in Iraq / War on Terror.

Well, since I'm not communicating with, or funding international terrorists, I am not giving up any freedoms at all.

However, if the Dems get power, my safety will certainly be more in jeopardy as they work hard to grant foreign terrorists full US civil rights including access to our courts and publicly funded attorneys. Is that any way to fight a war!

Democrats - Hard on Bush. Soft on Terorrism!

Answer 4

None! I believe someone famous said that anyone who would give up freedoms for safety are cowards who do not deserve the democracy they live in. Who am I to argue (although I would not myself call them cowards, simply misguided people who have been thorougly deceived by those in power!)

Answer 5

It's not like we have a choice on the matter the government takes what they want to the point that they even make it illegal to complain about it when they do! Sense when has the government ever consulted us before they have done anything in our name to us? " not that i could ever recall have we ever voted on relinquishment of right " the patriot act was initiated by the Congress not the people" total government control...

Answer 6

Ask the liberals. They are taking away the right to smoke and the right to own a gun. They are trying to take away your right to eat a hamburger or say a prayer. They are behind the PC movement to take away your right to free speech. Funny how they try to tell everyone that they are for 'civil liberties'!

Answer 7

I'm with Ryan. Freedom is the only protection against tyranny.

Answer 8

A great man once said "give me freedom, or give me death". I think he hit it right on the head with how i feel on this subject.

Answer 9

If someone is running after my loved one with a knife on the streets for no reason other than the goal of forced conversion to an extremist view that even condones killing their own, for sometimes even just a bad decision. I am not going to question how it is stopped, or who stops it-we are not Hyenas. For the person who posts as NOT JUST OSAMA.....do you think we Americans found the action at the WTC as more of a fear that would force us to comply with your wishes (Like so many other Hyena attacks world-wide?)-or, do you think it just concerned us to the possible actions Hyenas are willing to take? You may live in a world of lying to yourself, but this is FACT-I know many loving, caring, moral and family oriented people, who make their OWN choices here, who are from the Middle-East with VERY different beliefs, in their HEART, and when you force someone to live by Hyena -like rules and bidding, and they have NO choice, their following to you is not as strong as the lies they throw back at you, from their HEART, to make you just go away, for at least temporary peace. And with ALL of the cultural diversity we have in the USA, there are SO many issues that COULD create MASSIVE problems, but they do not.....why? Because we ALL have a common thread of belief that runs through ALL of our HEARTS, irregardless of issues that we need to solve as a nation, to succeed, together, peacefully, even with sometimes discontentment in progress, or different views as to the best way to get the job done, eventually, we get it done...because we ALL believe in the goodness of the human HEART, and helping each other, and sometimes this comes with sacrifice, and we do not kill each other like black-hearted Hyenas. NOT JUST OSAMA, we may not all agree on everything, but our HEARTS are ALL very much the the same in regards to the way people should be treated. ALL of our HEARTS beat in unison, WITH GREAT FORCE to the goals of goodness of ALL HUMANkind and so, please, you'd better watch how much advantage you think you can take of this goodness by your howling and biting....because it's getting tiring, and we are going to be forced to give you what you want so we can continue with our different goals of humanity.
Be Your Own Judge.

Answer 10

Bush says we must stay the course...that's all a Republicans needs to know ...stay this undefined magical course.