http://cptexas.org/articles/vp040103.shtml
http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon89.htm
http://foi.missouri.edu/usapatriotact/oppaviolates.html
2007-12-11 10:02:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Nytraino....here is just one example , but I wish you would also read the articles in the links above.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151
2007-12-11 10:20:24 · update #1
avarar 20.....I am an Independent.
2007-12-11 10:21:16 · update #2
Citizenship implies individuality because a citizen is One, acting in relation to, and in defense of, a community. Citizens do not defer to the State, although they may, after deliberation, temporarily defer specific rights, such as when allowing private property searches in the form of an airport luggage check, or allowing cookies and transfer of private information on the web. Such deferments are temporary and conscious sacrifices by a citizen for purposes of security or convenience.
2007-12-11 10:29:09 · update #3
If a State requires excessive abrogation of human rights as the cost of belonging, can a person living under the rule of such a state even be called "citizen"? That person is not citizen, but "subject", under the power and authority of the State/Party/Church. it is not surprising that natal and naturalized residents of the U.S. -- citizens -- are more frequently called "the American people" than "US citizens". Such language not only de-emphasizes the obligations and rights of citizenship, it enhances the power of the State.
2007-12-11 10:29:25 · update #4
It is the responsibility of a U.S. citizen to learn about and criticize his culture, especially those people and mechanisms in positions of authority. If structures of authority are inimical to human rights, which rights these governmental structures should be designed to protect and promote, the citizen has an obligation to challenge them, up to and including revolution. While a successful national revolution would replace the political entity which grants legal "citizenship", a broader idea of citizenship transcends national political entities and describes an individual actively participating in the ongoing creation of a society in which the primary value and unit is the individual citizen. The cohesion of the U.S. culture is in the minds of those of its citizens who still hold to the possibility of the promise "E pluribus unum".
2007-12-11 10:31:14 · update #5
The Patriot Act has enabled the government to protect us from another terrorist attack for more than six years, since 9/11. It's not perfect, but I've never seen the horrible abuses people are so scared of, and I've not given up a single one of my civil liberties.
Vote for Rudy!
2007-12-11 10:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by Rick K 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The people who support the Patriot Act are people who are living in a constant state of terror. A true patriot doesn't accept such a bill. Conservatives like to think that liberals oppose this and is only them. They don't know that many conservatives and libertarians oppose the Patriot Act. Judge Napolitano from NY who is a Republican conservative and wrote a book call "A nation of sheep" because they follow what everyone does. The president says this will help so they follow. Anyone who disagrees is label a traitor. We are slowly eroding our rights. Remember what Ben Franklin said "those who are willing to give up their freedom for a false sense of security deserve neither".
2007-12-11 11:33:12 · answer #2 · answered by cynical 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see you have plenty of links but....
Do you have a list of anyone affected by the patriot act?
How about a list of anyone who knows anyone affected by it?
Anyone who knows andyone who knows anyone?
Didn't think so.
I would think the liberal media would be parading some housewife who was violated all over the TV if anyone other than terrorists and their supporters where targeted by or affected in anyway by this.
Yet I am sure you let the 5 dollar an hour guard check your bag , that you own , when leaving a retail store though, with no problem!
I gotta laugh sometimes.
2007-12-11 10:11:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
What, you actually think that a "liberal" politician would have any more concern for your constitutional rights? A politician is a politician, period. Too many of us, myself included, find it easy to get sucked into defending either democrats, or republicans, when in truth these are for the most part mere labels put there so we will choose a side and defeat ourselves. It matters not that both sides use real, and serious issues as their personal sheilds, neither of them intend to do anything that will benifit you or I.
2007-12-11 10:15:04 · answer #4 · answered by avatar2068 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
May be some Patriots, see the name Patriot Act, and they think it's a club or some Thing for Patriots? They Join ?!
Regards.
Edit: I don't give Thumb Down or report abuse? so feel free to do it to me and have fun.
Rick K: I like it you are a believer? do you need a good life insurance or a Vacuum or some thing?
nytaino : I know several people who got affected by PA?
But i can't provide the list?! lol
2007-12-11 10:09:08 · answer #5 · answered by iceman 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Not even with a gun to his head. Which isn't as far from the truth as we might think.
2007-12-11 10:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Cuz anyone who DOES support the Patriot Act, is NOT a real Patriot.
2007-12-11 10:05:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 8⤋
or we can simply beg the Terrorists for MERCY.
2007-12-11 10:06:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 6⤋
A real PATRIOT couldn't.
2007-12-11 10:05:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 6⤋