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What are the "rights" people are willing to give up? That's the big question, because the answer could mean a million different things without dealing with specifics. If I could care less if someone has to look in my purse or run me through a metal detector before I enter a sporting event. I have to let them look through my purse most of the time already. I don't think that's giving up a right. I'm more concerned about arresting people without due process, etc.
What are the "rights" people are willing to give up? That's the big question, because the answer could mean a million different things without dealing with specifics. If I could care less if someone has to look in my purse or run me through a metal detector before I enter a sporting event. I have to let them look through my purse most of the time already. I don't think that's giving up a right. I'm more concerned about arresting people without due process, etc.
Try going to a Husker game (or any big sporting event for that matter), or a major museum without a purse search....it all depends on where you go. If it was just me, you might have a point, but I'm afraid the "well heeled middle aged mother of 5" look usually doesn't generate much suspicion....
Try going to a Husker game (or any big sporting event for that matter), or a major museum without a purse search....it all depends on where you go. If it was just me, you might have a point, but I'm afraid the "well heeled middle aged mother of 5" look usually doesn't generate much suspicion....
I remember when I used to have Browns season tickets, and went to a game in October 2001 right after 9/11. They made me pull out my cell phone and press all of the buttons. I believe that was the day we started bombing Afghanistan too. They announced it over the loudspeakers at halftime.
I remember when I used to have Browns season tickets, and went to a game in October 2001 right after 9/11. They made me pull out my cell phone and press all of the buttons. I believe that was the day we started bombing Afghanistan too. They announced it over the loudspeakers at halftime.
It's not just pro teams--I haven't been to a college sporting event or even a state high school championship event, like state wrestling, etc. for years without a purse search. We've had Husker season football tickets ever since we moved back here a decade ago, and they've always checked. The same is true with going to see a concert or a show at a major venue. It all started after 911, and it's not an inconvenience.
You can bet it is the liberals that are willing to give up their rights. Just read the threads on this site and you see it daily. And not only are they willing to give up their rights, they want to take away the rights of all Americans.
You can bet it is the liberals that are willing to give up their rights. Just read the threads on this site and you see it daily. And not only are they willing to give up their rights, they want to take away the rights of all Americans.
Le sigh.
I get so SICK of making this point, but I will make it YET AGAIN.
This LIBERAL, GUN-OWNING, FREEDOM-LOVING "LEFT WING NUTJOB"/"*******" is not, I repeat NOT, willing to surrender OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES for the ILLUSION of safety. It is a total CROCK.
CNN seems a bit upset as they say "only" 4 in ten. Those 4 in 10 should be escorted to the border and stripped of their citizenship and never let back in.
"Washington (CNN) – Although worries about terrorism have edged up following the Boston Marathon bombings, a new national poll indicates only four in ten Americans say they are willing to give up some civil liberties to fight terrorism."
You seem to have a problem understanding words & their meanings. Go back & reread the first sentence of that article, think real hard about the meaning & then go back & eliminate your first sentence. It doesn't apply in the least. And what specifically are these civil rights the people are willing to get rid of? It doesn't say. It only talks about internet & it clearly states twice that support for monitoring internet has decreased since 9/11. Growing support for camera surveillence? GASP!!!!! I'm all for it. I'm sick of the creeps in my neighborhood rifling thru cars or breaking into them. And don't forget, if it weren't for those surveillence cameras, those Boston marathon bombers may not have been caught or at least not caught as quickly. But go ahead & flap your wings that you're losing your freedom!!! Dramatics.
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