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Your point being? Are you suggesting that you support giving up liberty in order to secure temporary safety?
My point being is I want laws and rules that reflect today's issues. I don't think terrorism will go away or other threats to our safety, so I'm not too sure what you mean by temporarily safe.
Sad to see that the work of the founding fathers has almost been completely stripped away. The constitution is no longer adhered to. The Patriot Act and NDAA where both passed without hardly a complaint.
America is no longer a nation of free men (and women), sad
Are you saying I can't go to the store anymore and buy the groceries I need? I can't go to the car wash? or the corner bar? or the park? I can't type here anymore? I can't voice my opinions?
When did this happen, because I went grocery shopping today and drove my car on freeways and streets, and I didn't see any tanks or armored personnel carriers or people with automatic weapons patrolling the streets. Did I miss something?
Maybe YOUR LIBERTIES were crushed in your own mind?
The wronful actions of men do not vacate the precept.
Cute, but not an actual answer. The fact is that, for most Americans, today offers vastly more freedom that 1776 did. I'll grant that things like TSA pat downs are bothersome, but in the end they're better than what young black and Latino men face from many police departments (particularly the NYPD), so I've got bigger fish to fry.
As a gay man I confess I get annoyed when people lecture me about "personal liberties"!
Being more than a half century old, I can tell you what lack of personal liberty was like for millions of LGBT folks right here in the US of A.
I am old enough to remember:
LGBT people were prohibited from all civil service and government jobs whether county, state, or federal level. I remember when Dr. Franklin E. Kameny, a brilliant Ivy-League trained scientist was unceremoniously dismissed from his government job for no other reason than that he was gay;
LGBT people were denied entry into the armed forces;
LGBT people were denied security clearances;
Bars, clubs, and meeting places where LGBT people would congregate were routinely and constantly being harassed and shut down by the police;
laws made it illegal for even consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes to engage in intimate lovemaking;
Police would arrest LGBT people and publicly humiliate and degrade them by forcing them to strip in police stations;
When government agencies carted ordinary LGBT people off to hospitals and psychiatrict facilities where barbaric "medical" procedures were performed on them against their will, such as electro-shock aversion therapy;
Colleges and universities had discriminatory policies against LGBT people ...
I could go on and on ...
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