Would YOU rather live free with some peril -OR- be a protected slave of government?

Question

The greatest gift of freedom is that it allows us to govern ourselves, and the greatest burden of freedom is that it requires us to govern ourselves.

Answer 1

I believe that I am getting this quote right. Anyone who is willing to sacrifice freedom for security, deserves neither! I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said that! We need to take our country back from the globalists, and let the Constitution be what it was always meant to be! *sm*

Answer 2

Too many people have died for those rights! I don't think it is up to those who want to give them away to do so, that is why we have a mechanism in the Constitution to change it!

Passing an unconstitutional law, like the Patriot Act, or the Military Commissions Act of 2006 should not be done outside the confines of the constitution when it effects Constitutional liberties!! If they want to take away freedoms let them pass an amendment with 2/3 vote being ratified by the states.

Answer 3

Since both are possible your question is basically redundant. If you wish to live in a totally free society with no protections at all go for it. No military, no police, no courts. Great. You will last till the first person that comes along wants to destroy you and you have no way to stop them. With no Governmental protection you will not have some peril you will have great peril. Look at the countries that did not or could not protect themselves through out history.

Answer 4

We are born to die. Security is a state of mind, not a guarantee. I'll take freedom and the responsibility that goes with it.

I urge everyone to understand that no matter what authority says you must do, no one has any more authiority than what you give them.

Resist the government intrusion into your lives. Resist or you risk becoming property of the state. The government already thinks of you as property. You are a soverign individual, own this. It is your right.

Answer 5

That is very deep, but give me freedom and peril. I will never roll over to the government. Giving the government that kind of power creates corruption. As in the axiom Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Answer 6

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 7

Free with some peril- taking away rights doesn't make you any safer. Besides, there is no guarentee that one will live until tomorrow, so ultimately nobody is really 'protected'.

Answer 8

Freedom and peril

Answer 9

its funny, that just how i feel alot of the time in this country.. a slave. good question. we need about 95% less government and we would be doing pretty good. Each one of us having to deal with our OWN lives instead of the government dictating how we live.

Answer 10

I'd rather live free and be at risk than a coward always worrying what my neighbors were doing behind locked doors.