Why aren't Americans screaming in the streets about what is happening to our country?

Question

There is no disputing the facts that the war with Iraq is by Constitutional measurements illegal. Habeas Corpus has been done away with and there is talk of stopping "Free Speaking and thinking"..Children are denied health care and teachers have to bring supplies to school. Our roads and bridges are falling down and our national debt is off the charts, and yet the media rarely mentions these things. Why are we allowing this adminsitration to do this to us? Why do we allow Congress to vote for these things. I'd bet most people do not know that now we can be arrested and thrown in a jail and shipped to Egypt and tortured, or killed, and there is nothing we can do, and no one would know where we are or why. Why aren't we screaming Impeachment in the streets? This will stop future administrations from going this far again. Your thoughts?

Answer 1

Most American are comfortable numb believing that they are living the American dream...

Answer 2

Sorry, but the war was constitutionally authorized. There's nothing in the Constitution that says exactly how "war" must be declared, other than Congress does it. Congress authorized Bush to use force in Iraq. That included most of the Dems. All nice and legal like. Heck, the Dems keep funding it, year after bloody year.

I keep hearing about Habeas Corpus being suspended. When? What US Citizen or legal resident has had their Habeas Corpus suspended? Can you name even one?

The only people talking about stopping "Free Speaking and thinking" are the nutjob leftists that think Bush is the next Hitler. Your rights to speak and think freely are in tact. There are no secret police coming to round you up.

Children are not denied health care. There are gov't programs in place that already cover most poorer kids. Bush is merely opposing expanding those programs to more well off families that are able to obtain medical insurance on their own. Even the Dems example families already had S-CHIP and were able to afford medical insurance if they chose to make that a priority.

Schools have always been in trouble the last 35 years or so. What group ALWAYS stops meaningful reforms? If you want to scream in the streets, start screaming for vouchers so you can send your kids to any school you want, instead of the little gov't indoctrination centers that you have no choice in the matter. You know, the schools that no matter how much more funding they get, they still do a worse job than before?

Our roads and bridges are fine. Besides which, most are handled by state or local governments. Go talk to your city council or county supervisors if there are too many potholes. I don't recall seeing fixing potholes in the Constitution anywhere.

National Debt has grown, but is no bigger as a percentage of GDP (a very common measure) then it was in 1996. It's grown, but our economy and tax revenues have grown likewise as well, to the point that servicing the debt takes less percent of the federal budget then it did in 1996.

You can't be arrested and flown off to Egypt. At least not without full due process. Of course I'm assuming you are an American citizen or legal resident of this country. Can some roadside bomber picked up in Afghanistan? Yes. Why on God's green earth do you want to give foreign terrorists and enemy combatants full US Constitutional rights??? Please show me where in the US Constitution they should be given such.

Stop throwing your little temper tantrums and exagerating beyond all reason.

Answer 3

1. Children aren't denied health care. The bill that the President vetoed would have extended that free medical care to the children of parents who earned up to $83,000 a year. Hardly the working poor.
2. Habeus Corpus hasn't been suspended. Those held at Guantanamo were illegal combatants as defined in the Laws of Land Warfare (Geneva Conventions) and, in previous wars, would have been summarily executed after capture.
3. I don't know about your jurisdiction. In Nevada 91% of tax revenues which go to public education go to the payment of salaries and benefits. Any other business with that high a percentage of salary expense would be out of business.
4. The military operations in Iraq were authorized in Public Law # 107-243 by the Congress. Well within their constitutional authority contained in Article One of the Constitution. So, I dispute your contention that it is unconstitutional.
5. Nearly a trillion dollars has been allocated for the upkeep and maintenance of roads and bridges, including revenues derived from the Highway Trust Fund. The trouble lies with the "ear marking" of those funds by members of the Congress to bring a little pork back to their districts. That's not the fault of this or any previous administration.
5. You need to get a new media source other than broadcast and cable TV news. They exist to draw a crowd, so they can sell stuff during the commercials.

Answer 4

Do your self a choose and do somewhat learn on what the tea occasion members are approximately. you haven't any longer any clue why complicated working human beings are bored stiff with huge government and the uncontrolled spending that has usa in debt as much as their eyebrows. Washington does not hear to mainstream usa. I artwork, I pay taxes, I obey the regulations of the land, and that i choose the federal government to do what I might desire to do----stay interior of THEIR means. provide up the spending, provide up the bailouts, decrease the dimensions of government, guard our borders, provide tax breaks to small agencies to help create jobs, and have term limits for Congress (provide up the occupation politicians). human beings are bored stiff and are status up and asserting---not greater. that's what the tea occasion pass is all approximately-----it is not a non secular something. most of the pass may be Christian yet many Christians are conservative.

Answer 5

Some friends and I were talking about this the other day. And we being all in our 50s and 60s we discussed what people would have thought back in the 60s, 70s and 80s about what is going on now. This is what we came up with.
If you told the average person on the street back then that;
1.Cameras would be watching you on the street at your work and at the air ports; they would have laughed at you.
2.If you told them that all their phone calls would be monitored and recorded they would have called you crazy. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terrorist_surveillance
3.That you would be searched at airports, they would have called you paranoid.
4.That thousands would be held with out a trial or due process of law, they would have called you nuts.
5.That the USA would have secret prisons and would allow torture and even commit torture, again they would call you a nut job.
6.That the Supreme Court would deicide who won a presidential election; again disbelief.
7.That we would invade a sovereign nation who didn’t attack us; they would laugh on that one.
8.That the White House would leak the name of a CIA agent; again they would call you nuts.
9.That we would have to have an I.D with a tracking chip in it and that we would have to have a passport to get back into the USA. Etc, etc; again disbelief.

Then we concluded that if you had these things occur back then, you would have had millions of people take to the streets and demand impeachment. As the general public back then would never have tolerated such a fascist police state. Just look at the millions who took to the streets over Viet Nam.
But now many Americans are spineless cowards, who care more about video games, iPods, than freedom.

However I’d be willing to bet that sooner or later Joe Q public will have had enough. And then the sh*t will hit the fan!

Lol some funny answers. Habeas corpus Is not dead? You might want to check out his link. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15220450
It’s truly incredible how naïve some of the people who answered your question are! Thank God some of them like you see the truth!
I guess this shows how well the "powers that be" can brain wash the public to believe what they want them to.

And as far as congress aproving the Iraq war, ahem...We had troops over there in combat BEFORE congress decided anything!

And why didn’t we attack Saudi Arabia where most of the terrorists came from? And how about the Downing street memo? http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/
You just might want to read that people!

Answer 6

Some of us are. We are working for RON PAUL.

By the way, Congress cannot "authorize" a war. They can DECLARE it. When they had the chance to declare war, none of them did.

The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate its authority to the Executive branch.

The Constitution also gives Congress the power to coin money and regulate the value there of, and it also says that no state shall use anything but gold and silver for a legal tender. Congress did not have the authority to create the Federal Reserve in 1913 to print debt notes to be used as legal tender. READ THE CONSTITUTION.

Answer 7

This question was posted an hour ago, and has elicited more than 20 responses. Some responses are quite lengthy and passionate. But no one has found the question "interesting" enough to check that box..

I think this manifests a general public apathy.

Actions speak louder than words. People are more interested in giving their opinions, than doing anything about it.

Answer 8

Everyone keeps denying weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Well, what the hell do you think Sadaam Hussein used on his OWN people? Thousands died! Do you think they just stopped making them? And, do you think they would hesitate using them on Americans? Our freedom has NEVER came free. We need to fight wars to win them. Not pussy foot around and be "politically correct" THAT is why the war is STILL going on! We cannot convert everyone to Democracy! That is like converting everyone to ONE religion! We need to keep OUR country safe. All these people that are crying about gun control, and the war? What will you do if this terrorism, and suicide bombers, militias etc come to your town? Go ahead and try to TALK yourself out of getting killed. Don't choose that moment in time to seek protection from someone with a gun who has demanded their second ammendment while you cried in the streets about gun control, and humanitarian rights. These will be the same people screaming and asking why their government wasn't there to protect them. The pure truth, is that we became too complacent, and that is why we are where we are. We were a democracy during Hiroshima! What has changed? We need to start looking out for #1. By pushing Democracy on everyone else, and through our greed, we have become a secondary nation. All other nations play on our "political correctness" When is all this BS going to awake the sleeping Giant that once was the US of A?

Answer 9

Screaming in the streets?? Well if you mean that literally than no thats a horrible idea!!! What will that do besides making a complete incredible idiot out of yourself. Protest are honestly wastes of time because all does is get you thrown in jail

Answer 10

As you mentioned, there is a lot on our plates, but the reason we don't is because there's no reason to. Some groups demonstrate and most times it's civil. As Americans we are a resilient people, and we will get through this together.

Answer 11

You need to calm down; it's not as bad as you portray. We need to focus on replacing the current administration with one that will get our fiscal house in order, conduct foreign policy in a manner than engenders respect, not disdain, from other nations, and protect constitutional rights of citizens while being vigilant against terrorists.