Justamon does your fear of terrorists really extend to us losing our civil liberities?
I have yet to see anyone complain about going after terrorists, people just don't like the idea that tactics developed for terrorists are implied indiscriminately to American Citizens. Privacy issues are central to our nation.
I keep hearing the argument over and over again that most people will never feel the direct of effects of covert Big Brother, and that is true. Even in fully developed police states the average citizen got to live their life, work their job, eat their food, and fuck their significant other without direct governmental intrusion, but the atmosphere was oppressive.
Freedom is as much a state of mind as anything else, and when you start passing laws where every aspect of our lives are monitored on the off chance that it will protect us, it begin to erode the idea of freedom.
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Originally posted by justamom
 I read it...every word. I fear this is like Dickens and the Ghost of "America" future.
I honestly wish every single person could/would read this. I applaud your post.
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