What do you consider your "Civil Liberties"? And . . .?

Question

What you are willing to risk not to lose them? Are you willing to infringe upon the "Civil Liberties" of others? Finally if, like religion, we all have our own believes, how can they be defended/protected?

Answer 1

I believe in the first 10 amendments of the constitution. The Bill of Rights. To the letter just as they were written. I never understood how liberals could justify being so willing to defend nine of them but push for laws to curtail the right to keep and bear arms.

Answer 2

My civil liberties are the freedom to make my own choices within the law that governs my country. The right of free speech, the right to defend my family and my home. The right to a decent home, education, and medical treatment for which my ancestors and myself have paid taxes, Trouble is, this and preceding govts have already destroyed most of them in the pursuit of multiculturism. As to what I would risk not to lose them, that is not a valid question as I was given no choice in the matter. As to religion that is a personal matter, why should an individual have to protect or defend their religion? Just get on with your worship quietly and no one will know, unless you rub it in their face and try to convert them to yours.

Answer 3

Civil liberties are the freedoms that we have -- the ability for us to say "no, I won't" to some authority -- usually the govt.

You cannot protect civil liberties by infringing them against others -- that's like trying to protect virginity by having sex -- civil liberties are lost for ALL of us when ANYONE loses them -- that's the nature of what freedom means.

Civil liberties can be defended very simply -- do not force someone to do something against their will -- and do not allow the govt to force someone do to something that is against the law (or in the US, the Constitution).

And that doesn't depend on whether you argee with their choice -- you either defend their right to make the choice, or you side with those who want to take that choice and that freedom away.

We only have those rights we choose to defend -- and once we surrender them, they are lost until whoever is in power chooses to give them back -- and those in power rarely give back anything they have taken.

Answer 4

Our civil liberties are the things that we are free to do under our Constitution, and I do not see any merit in destroying civil liberties in the name of protecting them.

Answer 5

That's a lot of big questions.

I'm not willing to allow for unregulated government spying on the citizenry, repeal of habeas corpus laws, indiscriminate jailings, secret prisons, or torture all in the name of "fighting terrorism."

I'm willing to risk a certain degree of safety for that freedom and liberty that the Founding Fathers established for Americans.

Answer 6

I have the right to remain silent... civil liberties don't exist if you are in conflict with the majority...

“Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye.
Much sense the starkest madness;
‘Tis the majority
In this, as all prevails.
Assent and you are sane –
Demure—you’re straightaway dangerous
And handled with a chain.”
~Emily Dickenson

Answer 7

For me US CITIZENS need to look at the 1st 10 amendments to our constitution as a guideline, I throw out one fact that without the 2nd Amendment to protect the others all would falter.

Illegal aliens and criminals need not apply.

Answer 8

Here's a good list:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

Answer 9

Primarily my right to find information on how to seduce young boys. Thank God the ACLU has protected that right for me through it's defense of NAMBLA.......