What is more imporatnt to you Freedom or Security?

Question

In order for a country to provide more security to people it has to take awway some of the people's rights. However, the goverment can abuse its power. In the book 1984 by George Orwell people were manupilated by the governement because the governement was so powerful.

Answer 1

Security. Name one honest law abiding US Citizens which has had their rights violated...

Answer 2

Here's the question: At what point does the surrender of one's rights eliminate the positive value of that life?
Some would say that no rights should be surrendered, others say that life can still be valuable with very few rights.
But just because Orwell wrote a book about how this could happen, doesn't mean it is happening.

I think that using this type of reason is like crying wolf. If the government really does need to take away rights to preserve security, then this type of thinking would help to make a country vulnerable. Plus, how do you know that those rights will not be completely returned after security has been ensured? I understand the skepticism, but a dead man can't exercise his rights.

I don't want to give up my rights either. I just don't think that the USA government is anywhere close to having more power than it's people.

I know that the US govt is powerful, but the people are still much more powerful. Our government was set up the way it was to ensure that the people would always have the power.

Last, to a degree, all people are manipulated by their government. Public schooling, taxes, Media, Police, DMV, Money, and virtually every institution you can name are examples. That doesn't mean that they have ill intent or operate on their own accord. They still serve us.

PS: US civilians own more guns than ANY MILITARY FORCE ON EARTH, including the US Military.

Answer 3

They're both important, but civil rights - what our country was founded on, what defines us - trumps everything else.

Justice Louis D. Brandeis:
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

Justice William J. Brennan:
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.

Answer 4

Freedom of course! People who do not grasp that concept often have their freedom stripped from them by power egomaniacs who stage a terror event, then in offering to protect them, they place draconian rules and track their moves. Forcing Papers or I.D. cards on the public. next they teach children to rat out parent who speak bad of the state at home and encourage neighbour snitching.
It was either Lincoln or Ben Franklin who said "people willing to sacrifice their liberty for security, deserve neither" So Hitler made his power grab when he burned down he Reightstag building, blamed the communist..and the rest is history.
Cheney, Pearle, Wolfiwtz, Bush and at least 2 probably more of Bushes brothers, Rice, Rumsfeld and some other insiders detonated the towers for implosion, the Pentagon got a missile and what do you know, here the Patriot act was already written and awaiting signatures...Mary

Answer 5

Important...Not imporantnt
Away.........Not awway
Manipulated..Not manupilated
Government..Not governement
Aneeeeway!!!! By the way the old saying is "have your cake and eat it too" not " have your cake and Edith too" not that I wouldn't mind.....have you seen Edith???? The type of government that tries to allow a GREAT freedom for it's people, eventually MUST enforce current and occasionally new securities to continue such FREEDOMS. You can't help but open numerous gates when attempting to apply total freedom. Which asks the question...is there ever total freedom?

(PS) By the way...the misspellings button is free.

Answer 6

Can one be "free" without being "secure" or can one be "secure" without being "free"? Both are necessary obviously. However, can we afford to take one without the other, i.e., have one and not the other? What a question! Of the two, security depends upon restrictions. Freedom is all encompacing. Freedom is security at the most natural level and is best of the two.

Answer 7

Both. Loss of 1 will inevitably cause loss of the other. Without freedom, you are not secure from persecution by the government, just ask anyone who lived under comunist rule. Without security, there can be no real freedom, as people who live in high crime areas who are afraid to walk down the block where they live.

Answer 8

...Freedom... "we" can buy security... but Freedom... the price is in the "lives" and body parts of our sons and daughters who fight for it.... that's why "we" are so dispised in the World, "we" have what most don't....... but yes, it all comes at a price... how do you want to pay for it...? you see, we could end all this crap in about 48 hours... notify the heads of the governments that are just down and evil...politely explain to them that it's time to get back on your own land... take care of your own people and get the "F" outta the US business... if you want to do "business" with us...wonderful... lets do business... but if you want to be a Worldly Bully...fasten your seat belt... it's time to put up or shut up... then... send an Operational Imm. message to the Trident Necular Sub. on patrol somewhere in the Pacific ocean...have them target the "bullys" of the World and give them 48 hours to "take their ball and go home"... game over... The sub could target each of these jerks and turn their entire nation into little droplets of "green glass" and be back in Hawaii for the Luau by 1800 hrs. ...next ? (this is why I'm not the president)

Answer 9

That's the problem with liberals. They base everything off of a Science fiction novel. Get a clue, it's fiction. Other than getting the shake-down whenever I go through the airport nothing has changed in my life. There have been quite few terrorist rolled up and no foreign attacks in the US since 9-11...

Look at the facts, most all domestic terror events in the US are perpetrated by left wing groups...

My freedom hasn't been effected, liberals like yourself are the threat to security...

Answer 10

Security? Freedom? Safety? These are ideas that compell us. Laws are made based on them. No one is really safe and no one is truely free. All peoples are manipulated by their governments based on these three notions. Some more than others. Are we, is the question. I think so.

Answer 11

Freedom.