Cause I can't think of any of my rights being violated... If they want to look at records then its fine. I got nothing to hide. Do you?
2007-02-19 16:51:24 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I can't speak for others, but I still have all my rights.
2007-02-19 18:08:32 · answer #1 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 15⤊ 3⤋
Rich sociopaths control corporations that control/bribe government officials that control the population. They population are looked upon as assets or slaves. Rather than treat us directly as such they take the fruit of our labor in the form of income taxes and leave most of us with just enough to scrape by. You can thank abraham lincoln for that. His opposition to states rights wasn't to end slavery but to extend it to include the whole nation. The patriot act is terrorism its self. When ever you hear of an act ask if the name was actually the opposite of the intention of the act. Very often it is. Its kind of fun the read the act and see what a bold lie the name is.
Terrorism is not an ideology it is a means. Typically the last means of desperate people to assert freedom. More often it is performed or funded by intelligence agencies to excuse invasions, draconian laws, etc. The reichstag fires is an example. Hitlers party burned it down and blamed it on others to excuse passing his laws. Whenever someone says 911 or patriot act just shout back reichstag fire!
2007-02-20 00:59:28 · answer #2 · answered by - 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Truth Seeker has the specifics covered completely. I'll just skip to what having nothing to hide has to do with protecting freedom. First, ask yourself a couple of questions. Have you ever had complete and total trust in every member of your government? Has our government been completely clean of crooks, corruption, power hungry politicians, those obsessed with money, traitors, immorality or people simply out for their own end? When the door is opened a crack to allow Constitutional principles and protections to be stretched for our "own good," it isn't hard to imagine a someone somewhere deciding it might also serve a higher purpose to keep tabs on citizens for less than moral reasons.
We have spied on our citizens before and many lives were ruined because of it - it's called the McCarthy Era. It may have started out as a righteous search for communists set on spying on our government and converting citizens, but it quickly got completely out of hand. There are many less than moral reasons that can cause a seemingly well-meaning politician or member of Homeland Security to misuse and take advantage of the broad exceptions this new policy affords. If the American people aren't the guardians of the Constitution, always on alert to those who take it too lightly and dispense with it when it doesn't suit their agenda, we will not be worthy of living under it. I happen to agree with this statement in its entirety:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
2007-02-20 02:05:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
By itself alone the Patriot act is pretty harmless. But, combine that with other recent legislation, and if the administration made a mistake, and declared you an enemy combatant, by whatever qualifications they want to make up, you can be put away for life with no trial, and no charges, Basically, if there's a mistake made be it computer error or human error, or, if someone who has the ear of the administration decides they don't like you, you are history.
2007-02-20 00:59:58 · answer #4 · answered by knowledgeispowerforsure 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Governments have always used terror as a means of inserting policies that would other wise be refused. Of course they have used terrorism as a means to increase the power of government. That's what governments want the power to govern.
It's very easy to point the figure and say well if you have nothing to hide, well I don't know about you but I don't want some faceless government official to have my life in his hands. Don't be afraid.
2007-02-20 03:01:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
uhm... none...
i dont live in Democrat-land.. i live in the United States of America located on a planet we call Earth...
even the fact that people think that "rights are slowly being stripped away by the Patriot Act" makes me know right off the bat that they are living in la-la land because the Patriot Act is a signed paper with letters on it... not a virus...
the letters dont just magically grow, "slowly," as time goes on...
it hasnt changed since it was written...
Write some words on a paper, then sign it..
next week.. check and see if it has grown... it hasnt.
removals of civil liberties arent just magically growing on the Patriot Act...
its still the same as the day it was signed..
and it still doesnt take away any civil liberties...
so you democrats just keep on dreaming.. just make sure your the minority.. and it doesnt matter to me.
2007-02-20 01:15:04 · answer #6 · answered by Corey 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
You couldn't be more right!! Our privacy gets invaded more by each other than the goverment. Picture cell phones,this new video phaze, Google Earth which can zero right into your back yard for a small fee, free criminal record sites which isn't just criminal but financial records are sometimes included, and the internet big time! Just to name a few.
2007-02-20 01:07:13 · answer #7 · answered by Brianne 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Your right to stockpile munitions may be in jeopardy. Probably shouldn't have a lot of anthrax lying around. Be careful with those overseas telephone calls to Al Qaeda agents.
No, you're okay, unless you plan to suddenly become an enemy combatant.
And you want to know what really irks me? These liberals crying about this. They've been trying to take away our guns for 15 years. And don't get me started on the ACLU.
2007-02-20 01:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
What ever you do don't say you want to K--- George Bush on the Internet even if you are joking because they search this "catch phrase" and use it to poll and mine millions of Americans. But then you kind of know how many people want to ---- George. haha and it's true haha
Amendment 4 for one and obviously more looking above now..
The patriot act is tricky I have read it they set it up so they can do whatever they want if they think you are a "terrorist" which very well might mean Democrat to them. who knows
I think they are behaving a little like terrorists myself
2007-02-20 01:01:02 · answer #9 · answered by charlie 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Me neither, but rights, and violations thereafter tend to have a domino affect, one day it is a tapped phone call, the next its the very freedoms everyone is born with.
2007-02-20 00:55:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Browse this one and see...yes, it's mine
http://www.friendsofgod.info/
Since you have nothing to hide...perhaps you would'nt mind if the CIA rummaged through your personal effects (in your home) while you're at work?
Think this does'nt happen?...think again..
2007-02-20 00:55:19 · answer #11 · answered by Bonnie Lynn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋