If you have nothing to hide then you won't mind giving up some right will you ?

Question

This has been a ploy a scare tactic used by governments all over the world for thousands of years

It is meant to either force you into giving up the free exercise of your rights or to incriminate you as someone who needs to hide

First one erson then another then all of the nation is ressured into this line of slow theft of rights

The patriot act and Cuba's detainee's signal a move on the governmets part to limit freedom - But you won't mind giving up a few rights of someone else will you ?

The problem is once you give up rights for someone else it is so much easier for you to lose yours

That is exactly how Hitler did it

First the Jews then the this then the that

Until no German had any rights either - Remember Hitler gave himself a lot of power because of a terrorist attack - His proganda Minister said tell the people they are being attacked and then denounce the intilectuals as unatriotic - They will fight and they will give u thier rights

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The truth is - that if the federal police chose to listen to every last thing I said for a month out of any year they would likely be a bored bunch of cops who at the end of it might be in need of therapy.

That is not my oint at all - They do not have the right to invade privacy - If they feel I am a threat then go to a judge and convince that judge I am worth whie watching. Have the powers spelled out by said judge with a time limit

If you can't convince a judge that I am worth while watching then you don't have probable cause and my discussion with my aunt about my dogs swollen leg is none of you bee's wax

Answer 1

Good one again Trout.

"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." ~ William Penn

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ~ Wendell Phillips

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ~ Plato

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ~ Will Durant

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. ~ Unknown

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~ Dante Alighieri

I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. ~ General Douglas MacArthur

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~ Thomas Jefferson

When the government fears the People, that is Liberty. When the People fear the Government, that is tyranny. ~Thomas Jefferson

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell

A Republic must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty. ~ John Witherspoon

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

When I took the oath of office, it wasn't to my party or the President. It was to the Constitution. ~ Tom Tancredo

Hey folks, look what famous Americans have had to say about things, like your current situation today.

Dear lord! The right to privacy some of you are willing to give up! I am shocked. "I have nothing to hide". Assuming everyone else DOES! But whatever happened to America the brave. Now, it is America the MEEK!!

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government." –Thomas Jefferson

If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such sentiments today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers ... and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he... should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.

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"International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me;" George W. Bush, 12 December 2003. Oh dear! How did THAT get into this topic! Ooopsies.

Do you think that is how he gets away with murder? Good lawyers?

Answer 2

I see your point. I think the Patriot Act is wrong, because anybody could be accused of being a terrorist. People that believe the Patriot Act will only be used against terrorists are naive, and too dumb to realize this country is slowly becoming a Police state. The fact that somebody doesn't want to consent to a car search is considered probable cause to think they have something to hide. So how is that different from somebody giving up the fifth amendment right because they have nothing to hide?They have already shown how the FBI has been abusing the Patriot Act. It ought to be repealed. But I don't think people in this country have the sense to appreciate their freedom until they lose it. And they are loosing it.

Answer 3

Do you not have qualms about the rights that we as civilians take away from others in the form of privacy bother you? Then there is the democrats who are taking away the conservatives right to speech by closing down their radio programs AND your right to know what is going on in the goverment. This is their main concern, they don't want the conservatives informing the nation. They are also initiating a bill that won't allow whistle blowing to the media. Which surprises me because thats what they do best.

Answer 4

#1) I have NOTHING to hide!!

#2) I WILL NOT give up ANY rights!!!

Dog lover and others. How many years are you willing to sit in a prison or detention center without ever being charged for a crime? Or tortured? Or not given access to your family or an attorney? And when all is said and done when the ACLU or your family or some liberties union fights on your behalf only to prove that the government was wrong and you did nothing wrong and you should never have been held against your will and against your constitutionally protected rights will you then think and say ...."Hey perhaps the Patriot Act was wrong"?
How long???????

There are people RIGHT NOW in this situation!!!!

How long should they have to wait under these very conditions?

Answer 5

Sure they are some rights I would be willing to give up. There is nothing in the Bill of rights that gives us a right to unmonitored phone calls. I would let the government listen to everyone of my phone calls they wanted. They could monitor all my Internet activities. I have nothing to hide form them there.

There are, however, some rights I would not give up. I would never give up my right to keep and bear arms. That is the first right dictators like Hitler always take away because it hinders the peoples ability to revolt against the government. I think our society has come to believe any thing we want to do or have, we have a right to do or have. It is simply not true.

There is no right to privacy in the bill of rights. Why don't you try reading the US Constitution and its amendments?

Answer 6

No government -- ever -- has proven itself worth credibility when it claims to want to "protect" its citizens with sweeping measures, such as the so-called "Patriot Act." Warrantless wiretapping; email surveillance and other such devices only allow for further encroachment by OUR government.

The rights anyone says they would give up are those they never deserved, and the act of surrendering those rights is an insult to the men and women who fought for this country.

Answer 7

Are you willing to fight for Liberty or just complain about it. Seems your more concerned about the rights of the terrorists than those of American citizens.

Answer 8

Anybody who says that they will give up their rights for more protection. Deserves neither their rights or protection. (Paraphrase of a Ben Franklin quote).

Answer 9

What rights have you lost as a law abiding citizen? The only ones I'm aware of is your inability to call known terrorist and you have to take your shoes off at the airport. You must think GITMO is a really big place.

Answer 10

What a silly you are. You, God forbid, sound like a liberal. For your info the Patriot Act has help to save you silly -ss since it was enacted.
If and when you grow up, you will be thankful.