\"As for less freedom etc. Yes, to increase security we have to give up some privicy.\"
if privacy was all we were talkin about then id say open the blinds and keep me more secure.but what we are talking about is the presidents ability to now remove the citizenship of any single citizen based on nothing, absolutley nothing, then once thier citizenship is removed they are up the creek and canb be detained forever. well only until death would be more accurate.
mind you im a hypocrite as my wife works for the department of homeland security so my rent is paid thanks to all the new legislation here in the great old USA.
about the police in the UK: of course they killed the guy because of the recent bombings and of course that means the terrorists attacks were effective. there is no way around that. if people could truley just not react to terrorism then it wouldnt be done.
no i dont think we should have taken out iraq as a warning to the world, and no i dont think the patriot act is anything but the begining of the end. but the sheeple voted yes, and the sheeple never even questioned.
this very debate is a sign of the effectiveness of terrorism and also perhaps a sign for more authority. people want to be lead, they just dont want to be tugged too hard by thier leash.
perhaps thats crude of me to say, or insensitive but the whole world hasnt gone mad, its gone soft.
example? and this one is a win for the french:
why hasnt anyone asked where the jetliner that hit the pentagon is? where are the pieces? why was the hole so small (before the roof collapsed the hole was about 16 feet wide and 30 high )
i can really stir things up and ask why the new york jetliners didnt have windows, what was the flash before impact seen from 4 angles? why didnt they ever show frame by frame footage even though they show frame by frame of kennedy\'s head coming off?
people spend all day arguing over reaction and it makes them totally over look and take for granted the cause.
i love my country , not my leadership but my country.
i love ideas, concepts, and i pay attention to detail in order to preserve that concept. my leadership hates people like me even to the point of saying :
\"let us not tolerate outlandish conspiracy theories that pull the blame away from the real peratrators of these terrorist attacks\"(thats a memory quote)
here is where i swing a 180 again
dont blame my cops or anyone elses cops for overreacting to a situation like some perp in a longcoat dashing away into a crowd. the are the true public servants trying to protect. they dont get any extra power from things like the patriot act, they get extra responability.
and stress