Do you favour the Patriot Act.. Do you beleive that giving up freedom keeps you safer..
2007-10-11 08:58:58 · 26 answers · asked by whoever 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
So what maybe we prefer to live in a police state where our Constitutional rights have been eroded. I'm a rich man with my own talk show. It will never effect me.
2007-10-11 09:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by Nyghtmare 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I guess most people won't see it til it 's too late. I've been around for a while and never until recently have I had the feeling I better watch what I say. The govt has already embedded computer software with scanning programs and it's not just picking up 'suspicious' tid-bits but everyone's dialog.
The way people have been getting in accidents after they voice their opinion has an affect-if just not thinking the occupation is right is an offense. Some on here even relate to others against the war that they are traitors and should be shot or hung. Since when is someone's opinion a reason for assault?
I've noticed the increased police force with quite a few accidental deaths or suicides. In the world the are more mercenary groups then there are registered nations.
It seems like if you don't go along with the 911 story(that SHOULD have been investigated right?) you must be on the enemy side. Bull, but they are doing it. Richard Perle once said he wants war yes all out war(and he has pull).
With the state of the world at 'peak' oil, who ever sits on the wells will have much power and wealth. Notice on news hardly no soldiers or citizens get to speak out.
I don't know how anyone can let this go on when it will effect their future as well probably with waist high bloodshed like the Bible foresees.
TomB-that can be turned around too
2007-10-11 09:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The term police state is a term for a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a liberal democracy. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.
Patriot Act has not been used against me yet. And when it is I will exercise my civil rights and get a lawyer.
2007-10-11 09:07:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, I don't favor the Patriot Act (well.. parts of it anyway) and I don't believe that giving up freedoms is the right way to make this nation safer.... but I also don't feel I live in a police state... I mean.. I know we have heated debate.. and some things need to desperately improve.... but we can tell the President to F off and not disappear... and my Pakistani Brother-in-law hasn't been carted off yet... nor have my half Pakistani nieces and nephew... so we must not be TOO bad yet...
2007-10-11 09:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Wow, I'm so glad someone who doesn't live in the US considers themselves informed enough to make that statement.
I am a dual US-Irish citizen, born in the US and my husband (Italian) & I split the year btwn the US & Italy. One great example of how the US is not a police state - you do not see police walking around with automatic weapons slung over their shoulders. In Ireland, police are ridiculed for not carrying guns - especially as their drug trafficking problems have grown expenentially over the past decade.
Our rights are held secure.
2007-10-11 10:08:06 · answer #5 · answered by dlil 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are we indeed? I was under the (evidently mistaken) impression that the PATRIOT Act only infringed upon the rights of those whom the government had valid reason to suspect were involved with terrorists. I also find it slightly odd that you're allowed to say things like you just did without the police breaking down your front door and hauling you off.
2007-10-11 09:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by Richard S 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think you are blowing things out of proportion. However, I am concerned about a 1984ish environment creeping in. Especially the cameras on every corner stop light....very disturbing and Orson Wellish.
We should all be concerned, but as of yet, I don't feel like I am in a police state.
2007-10-11 09:03:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
blah blah police state...blah lost rights...patriot act...blah blah blah giving up freedom.
These type of posts are getting soooo old. And of course, no links, no examples, no proof.
EDIT: New Life experience if that were true almost every liberal on YA would be in jail. Nice try
2007-10-11 09:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by time_wounds_all_heelz 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Can you give me one instance where the Patriot Act has resulted in anything even remotely like a "police state"?
2007-10-11 09:01:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋
Oh my gosh. Really.
Get real you liberal zombie. We live int he freest country int eh world. If the CIA wants to "spy" on terrorists and other Jihadis than so be it. And if they really wanted to they could look into my accounts. I have nothing to hide.
-Do you?
2007-10-11 09:51:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋