FReep Excite Poll about Giving Up Freedoms

Excite ^ | September 12, 2001 | Staff

[LurkedLongEnough]

Which freedoms would you be willing to compromise in order to wipe out the threat of terrorism?

Freedom of travel
Freedom of speech
Freedom of privacy
All of the above
None of the above
Not sure

[LurkedLongEnough]

Apologies if this was posted already - I did a search on Excite, Poll and freedom and it did not turn up.

[AlaskaErik]

NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!! Exterminate the lowlife cowardly scum who are responsible. Exterminate their families. Exterminate the countries who support this scum.

[SGCOS]

I'd be willing to give up a terrorists freedom of life.

[Astarte]

If you haven't hit it yet, come on, let's do it. http://news.excite.com/news/poll/

[RnMomof7]

bump for FREEDOM!

[piasa]

Which freedoms would you be willing to compromise in order to wipe out the threat of terrorism?

Freedom of travel 23% => 3952 votes

Freedom of speech 1% => 193 votes

Freedom of privacy 6% => 899 votes

All of the above 9% => 1585 votes

None of the above 54% => 9097 votes

Not sure 7% => 1210 votes Current vote tally: 16936

[VoodooEconomist]

NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!

I'm afraid it's too late for that. America must complete the cycle before it can ever be what it once was.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." --Lord Alexander Tytler on the fall of the Athenian republic

[VoodooEconomist]

Fortunately, America is not a Democracy. As such, God-given rights are not subject to a vote. Those rights are inalienable. If we lose them, it is because the State stole them. A vote to allow the State to steal them is merely a cover to make the State look more benevolent than it really is.

[Rustybyrd]

Very nice page. Marked it for future reference.
BUMP! and a vote.