Since September 11, we have all become paranoid. The U.S. was built on the idea that we all have personal freedoms, but now many people seem to have forgotten it. Now it's OK to wiretap, even though we grant the right to free speech, to imprison people without even telling people who they are, even though we supposedly have the right to habeus corpus, and to hate anyone who's not Christian, even though we're granted freedom of religion. And anyone who stands up for the Constitution is branded a traitor! Am I just imagining it, or have we lost sight of the priorities the US was based on?
2007-04-25 05:04:43 · 5 answers · asked by cross-stitch kelly 7 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
You cannot have personal freedoms when your "President" acts more like a tyrant who does not care about his people. We have no more freedoms, we have lost it all fromties our governemnt has spewed at us for the past few years. We are going against everything this country was founded upon and it is sickening. We have to be careful of what we say because remember Big Brother is watching you or worse if you have any sort of job where people hear you then you may be labeled somethig like a racist for a joke, right Imus? The new era is McCarthyism hunting down anyone who is a potential "terrorist" in the eyes of the governement so they can spy on us.
2007-04-25 06:10:43 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Times have changed and there is a need now to be able to find the enemy of our great nation.
Is it wrong to defend the constitution and the nation that it stands for with all possible technology.
You can not tell who is who today and we have a right to be paranoid when there could be a suicide bomber living right next to you.
2007-04-25 12:27:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope you haven't, except from my point of view I see the Constitution being eroded from your view point leaders. Odd isn't? No wonder everything seems rather a mess. I think your philosophy is destroying the US and you think mine is doing the same thing. Somewhere, somehow there has to be a middle ground, heck I haven't figured it out what it is yet, dang whomever does deserves to be President.
2007-04-25 13:41:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes- look at the Presidential candidates-it's all about who has the most money--if everyone 18 and over would read the constitution and vote accordingly and stay on top of the people they vote in we wouldn't be having such a rift between the people and government- our government was set up so that this wouldn't happen but the people need to be vigilant
2007-04-25 12:16:21 · answer #4 · answered by suan b 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are not imagining it. Please don't let people convince you otherwise. Read this article posted on a British Newspaper called The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2063979,00.html
2007-04-25 12:16:01 · answer #5 · answered by wyllow 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋