Enlarge the govt are you kidding. The govt has been disarmed in the fight against radical muslims.
Fine if you want the govt to take a hands off approach to terrorists fine. But then don't have the nerve to blame the president for an attack.
The president will no longer be responsible for keeping america safe. Leave it up to the citizens but don't allow the dems to make it a partisan issue when their is an attack.
If the citizens want our laws to be so relaxed that we turn into france then fine. But do not blame the govt.
When muslims start attacking us in the u.s because we can't stop them do not blame the govt.
Govt should also have nothing to do with illegals then. Govt shouldn't be building walls on private property of ranchers on the border. Let the citizens take care of them. Get rid of the govt then.
You can't get angry about the govt going after al queda and then blame them for illegals.
I don't blame the president for an attack that might occur in the future - I blame the individual terrorists that commit the act. I don't believe in enlarging government power to keep me safe. That betrays the very essence of that for which the Founding Fathers of this country fought.
Terror, for the most part, was dealt with just fine before the Patriot Act came along. Unfortunately, bad (sometimes awful!) things happen. 9/11 happened. Who is to say that the Patriot Act would have stopped it? Even with the Patriot Act in place, we have lived in a state of fear for the past four years that it would fail in some way!
To allow fear to dictate the course of one's actions is not to be free. In a free society, we have to accept the fact that criminal acts happen. "Freedom" is not just a nice sounding word we throw around to make ourselves feel good, but rather represents a certain state of existence that recognizes that the government does not solve all our problems. Freedom IS freedom from the government. If you enlarge the power and authority of the government believing it will solve your problems, you cannot help but kill freedom eventually.