On the day after 9-11, we all pretty agreed that we had loose some of our rights...to regain our safety. We may slip back to the original starting point one day....but 9-11 will repeat itself, and we will move right back to lesser rights in the end. Fear of safety is a bigger deal, than fear of lost rights.
Not to me, it isn’t.
Who's this WE kemosabe.
>> On the day after 9-11, we all pretty agreed that we had loose some of our rights...to regain our safety.
Before we lost our willpower and embraced political correctness, we used to do it a different way.
If foreign powers messed with us, after a (usually protracted) period of tolerance, we finally decided we had had enough... then we went in and subjugated them THOROUGHLY, by force. After which, more often than not, they became allies. But they didn’t pull that “mess with us” stuff anymore.
That way, the citizens within the borders of this free country could remain free.
But like I said, we don’t do that anymore. We now deem it acceptable to give up our own freedoms to indulge the belligerent whims of other countries/ideologies/religions.
“Fear of safety is a bigger deal, than fear of loss of rights.” You are fearful, and want everyone else to lose their rights. Because You Are Fearful?
WHAT?? WE? I agreed to no such thing. Without rights there is no safety.
Besides, obama shot Osama Bin Ladin, thereby ending the war on terror. How could there be any plots?
“...we all pretty agreed that we had loose some of our rights...to regain our safety.”
Meanwhile, many others agreed: “he who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither. ... Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security...”