Does The U.S. government overplay the national security card trumping our Consti

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   RealityTalkposted 12 years ago

   Does The U.S. government overplay the national security card trumping our Constitutional rights
   
   Do you think the U.S. government creates or infers national security threats as an excuse to override your Constitutional rights in order to more easily implement whatever goals it may have.  And if yes, are you comfortable with that?  Or, do you prefer safety be attempted at all cost no matter how many boots trample your Constitutional rights?  Or, are you willing to run some risk in order to preserve the rights your forefathers and so many following them fought for you?

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   Jeff Berndtposted 12 years ago

   Yes, I think the Gov't does overplay the "security card," and no, I'm not comfortable with that.
   
   I don't have a problem with the Government being /capable/ of wiretapping or surveilling our citizens, but if they're going to do so, they should absolutely have to get a warrant beforehand. You want to search through someone's home, papers, or effects, you get a warrant. No warrant, no search/surveillance/wiretap.
   
   Why is that so difficult?

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      RealityTalkposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for your comment Jeff.  I agree.

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   lone77starposted 12 years ago

   Now, I like this question. Well formed. And quite interesting, too.
   
   How do you know if it's really "national security" or merely a thug hiding their crimes? If there's no oversight, then you'll never know.
   
   Ben Franklin had it right. If you give up some of your liberties for security, you will deserve neither and will likely lose both.
   
   I couldn't believe my ears when one reporter proclaimed that he just wanted to be "safe." Well, I have a nice prison cell over here, and you can be safe for the rest of your life. Dumb!
   
   It took me a decade to wake up, but it is now so obvious to me that 9/11 was an inside job. Elements within the American government either participated or merely allowed it to happen. And then Mayor Giuliani committed a felony by cleaning up the largest crime scene in American history, long before an investigation could be started. And then the investigation -- grudgingly started by Bush after families created a stink -- was under-funded and under-supported. Far more was spent on Clinton's sexual indiscretion. How low have we sunk?
   
   And when the military officers responsible for the massive security failures on 9/11 were given promotions instead of courts martial, you know something is rotten in America.
   
   There were numerous individuals who came forward after 9/11 to describe fishy activities in and around the WTC buildings before that day. The Corporate Party news paid them no attention. Corporations had what they were after. The Military Industrial Complex had another juicy war -- several of them. In fact, they had a never-ending money-making machine -- a War on Terror that would create more terror by blow-back, and could never be defined as "done."
   
   It's almost funny how George W. looked when asked by a reporter about his foreknowledge of 9/11. The PoTUS looked as though he'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Guilty as sin. And when he made light at a fundraiser how the WMDs were never to be found, it turned my stomach how the crowd laughed while thousands of our soldiers were dying and hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were dying to pad their bank accounts.
   
   America was a beautiful idea. We might see the reality of it again, some day.
   
   In the meantime, a true American patriot -- a journalist's journalist -- is attempting to build an alternative source of news that's trustworthy:
   
   http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/439 … -project-0

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      RealityTalkposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you, for your well thought-out answer.  I agree.

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