Are you willing to give up any rights to become more safe?

Dizzeguy · Congressional Page Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 14

if you care about the governemnt listening to your phone calls or looking at emails you have somthin to hide. i dont care what yo usay. you have something to hide if you care. i can talk about anything to anyone on any of my buddy lists or my phonebook and nothing will incriminate me in any way. stop caring so much stop being such a hard ass about it they're just trying to friggin catch terrorists

classyred · Mayor's Aide Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 68

To answer your question I am not willing to give up my rights our country and the solders for many years fought to give us our rights and preserve them for each generation that follows and if we gave up our rights that would of all been for nothing.

Coda1108 · Mayor's Aide Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 130 Location: PA

phil · Mayor Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 174 Location: Seattle

Well,

Once can say we have already given up our rights....

I cant drink and drive, fish downtown, say things out loud because it might offend someone, so I guess I can do with a little more gov squeezing just to make sure that we don't go boom.

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deportliberals · Congressman Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 704

First of all, most americans are utterly clueless as to what constitutes a "right" .vs a "freedom" .vs a "privilege.

Our sick, uninformed culture thinks that everythihng it does is some kind of a friggin right. GROW UP!!

The Constitution makes it abundantly clear that CONGRESS will regulate transportation & commerce(air, sea, land, etc). When you are told to take your shoes off at the airport that is NOT a violation of any of your rights. It is a momentary suspension of your FREEDOM to wear shoes.

We have example-after-example of Presidents suspending rights during time of war or conflict. Abe Lincoln suspended habeaus corpus, ordered summary executions without trials, jailed people for incorrect speech, and trashed the 10th amendment to the Constitution.

Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office Of Censorship which required all media reports on the war to be filtered through that office before being made public. American-Japanese were rounded up by the tens of thousands and confined to camps just for being Japanese.

The few, samll measures that the Bush Admin have implemented since 9-11 pale by comparison to what famous LIBERAL presidents have already done to trash our rights...REAL RIGHTS have been trashed by primarily liberal presidents.

Most of what you do in your daily lives are not rights; they are freedoms and privileges.