Do you feel safer now we have exchanged our Freedoms for Security...?

Question

Franklin was right.... some of us deserve neither.

I am not one of those.

Answer 1

As a New Yorker I never felt particularly unsafe even after 9-11 I think all the fear and worry was actually from the middle of the country. Those of us in the "fire zone" just go about our business. Is the nation safer? No. It is likely more dangerous. And not because our borders have Mexicans coming across. new flash the 9-11 terrorist were not Mexican nor did they come though Mexico they had expired student visas, crack down on that if you must. It is more dangerous because GW has made Iraq a terrorist stronghold when it was not one before

I hate the idea that we have lost Freedoms. Illegal wire taps, jail without an attorney or a trial, The inability to sue for unlawful imprisonment, the fact that we even have a conversation about an national ID car, a freaking wall across our border (walls keep people in to), suspension of Heabus Corpus in some cases, no fly list that list babies. This is not America.

The sad thing is that the terrorist win every time we give up a freedom. And we give them up like lemmings at a cliff

Answer 2

No. And "safe" is a relative term. A huge asteroid could slip up on us from space and blast this whole planet to dust in a very short period of time and there would be nothing anyone could do about it... That's not safe.
As evidenced by the comments you see above, there are those here in the US who are not even aware of what has been given up.
Due process, for example will likely never be the same in America. Years from now there will be lawyers who will point to what we have done in the "interest of national security" as the case for depriving Americans of the very rights the Constitution guarantees. If we're lucky those being deprived will be actual enemies of the state. If not, it will more likely be the political opponents of those in power. Might even be your grandson or granddaughter that gets hauled off by US officials and you'll never know the reason why nor when, if ever, they will be released. The rest then becomes a foregone conclusion.

Answer 3

considering i replaced into born right into a unfastened society, I do take it with none attention. what's incorrect with that? I additionally served 4 years interior the protection stress, no longer plenty to be a patriot yet at 18 and in simple terms out of highschool and did no longer have a clue on what i desired to do something of my existence. i'm now seventy seven years old and have long previous via many presidents. Obama is not any greater advantageous or worse than many i've got lived below.He has the peoples risk-free practices in innovations in simple terms as he could have. the wonderful to bear palms is granted interior the shape in case you interpret that way and the ideal court docket seem to agree.the ordinary public gets all bent out of shape whilst somebody mentions putting regulations on weapons whilst the easy answer could be to place a loss of life penalty on absolutely everyone who makes use of a gun to commit a homicide or crime. Freedom is a mindset. some people would be in detention center and nevertheless have a feeling of freedom whilst in comparison with what they'd have come from. a sturdy occasion could be a Mexican residing on the border.no longer in user-friendly terms does he sense safer here interior the states in detention center yet a feeling of freedom. in simple terms keep in mind all protection stress are american too.,and that i'll guess my backside money whilst it includes some president giving orders to suppress the yankee people,there'll be a insurrection via them.i understand there has been incidents in historical past the place the protection stress replaced into used to place down rebellions,yet those have been remoted incidents. Your theory and my theory of freedom would possibly no longer be an identical,yet mine is the wonderful to do what i want with out convey harm to others.all of us have particular regulation to stay via and that i appreciate that.if we did no longer there could be a entire smash down in society.

Answer 4

Of course not. Our borders are no more secure now than they were pre-September 11.

Whenever people start grumbling about having to take their shoes off at the airport or some other foolishness (such as the Homeleand Security Plan to put plastic sheeting and duct tape over all doors and windows in case of a chemical attack), then the Administration "breaks" the news about some non-specific "plot" to blow up a Nuke Plant or a Military Installation. The fact these "plots" can get so far along the pipeline just proves the Dept of Homeland Security isn't doing its job, because obviously our borders aren't secure.

Answer 5

I am not one of those either! I don't understand why some people cannot see what the Patriot Act is really about and for! Most of us have not seen the full impact YET! But, the operative word is YET! But, it is clear to many of us, what is coming, and for trying to wake the others up, we only get ridicule! LZ

Answer 6

I didn't feel particularly endangered to begin with.

For those ready to jump to conclusions, both sides of the political spectrum feel the need to restrict our rights - whether it's "free speech zones" or gun bans...Someone's always looking to tell me when and where and what I can do. =(

Answer 7

I love my freedoms and believe that have remained the same..... until the libs or Dems get a chance to take away all firearms. Then you definitely will not have any freedoms or the where-with-all to fight for same.

Answer 8

Ironic that the Founding Fathers of America sacrificed the safety of America for its Freedom and now we sacrifice freedoms of America for the illusion of safety in America.

Answer 9

well i am sure there will be those folks who will make the same claims that the Germans did when hitler was rising to power," I haven't lost any rights" or "i have nothing to fear because i have nothing to hide".

obviously those folks haven't been waiting 4 months for a passport.

i am not one that feels comfortable being oversheltered by big government.

Answer 10

Of course not. Even a small amount of government starts off a road to serfdom that leads to totalitarianism. If America doesn't have the sense to elect Ron Paul in 2008, it is soon going to collapse under its own weight.