The Patriot Act gives the government more power...and uses more tax dollars (or at least opens avenues for that use)...... isn't that innately non-conservative? Isn't that the opposite of what the republican platform calls for?
2007-03-26 06:34:40 · 24 answers · asked by pip 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
so much hate towards me on this one.. it's an honest question.. and if you look back at past questions of mine you'll see that is my tendency... thank you for the sincere responses thus far.
2007-03-26 06:43:01 · update #1
No it is not. The theory of less gov't never pertained to nat'l security. In fact, many republicans/conservatives feel that this is actually the only role of the gov't.
2007-03-26 06:38:14 · answer #1 · answered by tobcol 5 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Glenn Beck isn't a libertarian. Did he say he grew to become into? I certainly have not listened to him plenty for the reason that he roasted Ron Paul purely in the previous the election for president. I did hear later that he claimed he grew to become into getting "extra" libertarian. He has an prolonged thank you to flow. Like maximum neocons, he opposes Ron Paul's and our troops' prefer to hold the wars distant places to an end whilst nonetheless claiming he helps our troops. that's no contemplate whether somebody adjustments political ideals via the years in spite of the indisputable fact that. maximum individuals may well be bowled over to verify numerous the flaws president Lincoln stated in the previous vowing to end slavery. a hundred and eighty degree turnaround is an underestimation. I have not any concern with wars that are reasoned out. I admire the philosophy of solar Tzu-wars are won in the previous they're started. Our administration foolishly omitted this information and we see the end result now.
2016-10-20 12:00:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tactics used to lull Americans into believing Big Brother is doing it for our own good!
No foreign terrorist has come to American soil that our government wasn't fully aware of!
They know what they are up to and use the terrorist deeds for their personal benefit!
Just as Bush's PNAC predicted.
To move Americans to unification would require "A new Pearl Harbor"!
September 11,2001
They got their New Pearl Harbor!
Hmmmm!
More of a significant insider tip than Martha Stewart got?
Not the first time in history the US had inside info.
Google Operation Northwoods!
Dirty B@stards!
2007-03-26 06:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Terrorist supporting libs? This childish neo-con myth has got to stop. It's unamerican as it seeks to limit the freedom of speech from one group because they are labeled a danger to society based on nothing but the paranoid fantasies of a group of people who prefer security to liberty.
The current neo-con driven republican party is vastly different than the original concepts of the republican party - it used to what less govt but now it wants to invade people's private lives in the name of security and/or family values. It wants the govt to legislate morality.
2007-03-26 07:00:47 · answer #4 · answered by samurai_dave 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In general, yes, that is the republican thinking, as far as I can tell. But one OTHER point that the republicans have been promoting is also strength in defense, and most of this money is used for defense. I have NEVER heard a republican complain about the DEFENSE dept of the government being considered in that regard
2007-03-26 06:39:40 · answer #5 · answered by Tikhacoffee/MisterMoo 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You've gotten some hateful answers because you've exposed them. Logic and history are the enemies of conservatives; they don't like reality. What constitutes the Republican party today obviously isn't the same as what constituted it before Reagan.
OLD-STYLE REPUBLICANS SHOULD ALL BE JOINING THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY.
2007-03-27 02:49:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Indeed you are right about enabling our government to overpower us even more so. We are being blindly robbed of our freedoms every day. Just like the good old ATM and credit cards. Convenient- yes, however, just another way for the government to track our every move. This is no longer a democratic gov't.
2007-03-26 06:40:34 · answer #7 · answered by Starlight 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I doubt that this act gives our current president powers nearly as great as other US wartime leaders have had.
National security is one of the few areas that just about everyone agrees is the government's job.
2007-03-26 06:54:01 · answer #8 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does, but it also is effective in protecting the country. It's tough, because the nation needed to be more secure, but it's impossible to do that without giving the government more control. It personally hasn't invaded my privacy at all, then again, I haven't been involved in any illegal or terrorist activities.
2007-03-26 06:40:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Patriot Act is to protect America...Unless you are a sleeper cell or some kind of criminal, they wont even know you exist.......I don't think they want to listen to your calls about how you spent your weekend home alone.
Notice how much safer it's been since we instituted these things???
2007-03-26 06:38:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Pretty much. So much for small government, I give you the Dept of homeland insecurity. Now that's bureaucrocy.
2007-03-26 06:39:34 · answer #11 · answered by guy o 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋