2007-07-21 15:42:06 · 13 answers · asked by hwinnum 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
What about a government that abuses the Bill of Rights while claiming to protect the people?
The most protected people on Earth are in jail cells.
2007-07-21 15:50:36 · update #1
I shall be the iconoclast. Locke and Jefferson's justification for government was to protect our liberties. If the govt. solely protected people we would have a dictatorship. I can solely figure out what hurts me or not let me decide. I'd rather be a happy dead person thats free than a slave of the state and alive.
Rosseau "I prefer Liberty with danger to peace with slavery."
2007-07-21 15:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jason 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the government's job to protect the rights of the people. America was founded on the belief that a higher power other than the government gave us our liberties, and the government had no right to take them away. Some of those liberties are expressed in the Bill of Rights. So, the government has no right to infringe on those rights, or the rights of the people. In the end we are all responsible for ourselves, therefore we are more than capable of protecting ourselves.
2007-07-21 17:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by j 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the government has a responsibility to protect both.
However in consideration of the other agruments above, the people do have the right to protect themselves through the right to bear arms and form militias. At one time that was viable, but since we have so many nut jobs on the street now those freedoms to protect ourselves have been limited. Heck I'd buy a tank if they'd sell me one!
Secondly, the threats we have to our people today have been created by the government itself through is post WWII policies of dictating to the rest of the world what they should do. Do you see any Islamists trying to blow up the Chinese or Koreans? nope, because they haven't ever tried to control the Persian gulf region (a place sacred to Islam). What would you do if Arabs tried to occupy our country, tell us how to run our governments, rule our people, make our laws, and control our economic interests (oil)?
2007-07-21 16:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by handygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government's job as designed by its creators is to provide an environment for hard-working people to succeed and life profitable lives. Essentially, the government should protect its citizens, and their rights and property from each other and foreign enemies. Nothing more, nothing less
2007-07-21 17:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by Alexandrov 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the government's job to protect the people. It alone has the authority to fund a military. It is the people's job to protect their liberties against a tryanical government.
2007-07-21 16:11:40 · answer #5 · answered by MICHAEL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about protecting the people's liberties.
2007-07-21 15:55:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Founders of America thought and wrote into the Constitution that government was to protect the rights and liberties of the people.
My understanding is that they thought the people could pretty well protect themselves.
Among adults, Master protects his slaves (right after his family, of course).
clear?
2007-07-21 15:47:16 · answer #7 · answered by Spock (rhp) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes , both !!!
Why aren't the BORDERS CLOSED if Bush is protecting the US from terrorist?????
If the Government won't protect us ,then do we do it ourselves ???
2007-07-21 15:48:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. It's NOT their job to protect giant blood sucking corporations.
2007-07-21 15:45:40 · answer #9 · answered by acydskull 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both
2007-07-21 15:45:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋