We are in war for our survival. Sacrifices will have to be made. I don't know if you have noticed but we also now have to fear that someone has put a deadly disease in our mail and is planning on attacking our food and water or bomb us with a nuclear weapon. You provide the government with the answers how to catch them using our current laws. If you can't, maybe you will understand the problem the government faces.
This is not a perfect world since some terrorists decided to come over here and fly our airplanes into towers killing thousands. We have to do something.
One other thing, what about the rights of the soldiers having to go fight this war? Seems like their right to a home life, their right to freely come and go, their right to spend time with their children also has been put on hold. Sure don't hear them complaining.
Really?. Why then has Congress not declared war?. And since it is a war for survival as you state, how will we know when we win?, what can I tell my kids to look forward to as a victory? I mean since I am being asked to sacrifice, how will I know when I've sacrificed enough?, can you tell me.? Just what do we need to do so that people in the rest of the world won't want to kill us?. Who or what has been done to these people that they are fanatic enough to become kamikazi's?.
Since this is a "war", why don't we declare war and start really conducting war. Let's figure out what we need to do and build, allocate resources at a national level and win in as little time as possible.
BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. We get the "Patriot Act" which allows the government to act as if we are all terrorists and a new bureaucracy to feed us all bull$hit.
Remember to smile when you bend over.
---max
How is it that we never (except here and in a few similar niches) hear suggestions for "something" that enhances liberty and actually works (e.g. encouraging rather than harassing honest citizens who wish to arm themselves to defend themselves and their communities)?