Posted on 07/05/2002 6:59:55 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner
What makes man secure is his freedom; they are directly related, not indirectly.
Americans have authority which they should not give up at all.
When government political momenti make the rounds seeking the answers to "how much freedom ... ?" they know well, but the public does not think hard enough sometimes to be aware of how said government artists actually seek our authority.
And oddly enough defense is talked around and about in the WOT but nothing trully substancial is being done to increase our nations troop strenght {numbers}, aircraft, ships, or ground equipment. We get some pie in the sky talk about projects ten years down the road at best that for some reason need to be paid for at the expense of our current programs. The number one function of govermemt is national defense. It's not education, foreign aid, the arts, or other such programs.
How much freedom should be trade for our security? Outside of military and national sefense systems I say none.
But seeing avaition or rather commerical airliners are private property and venture the planes owners would be wise to secure their property with things like cameras and armed security. I can not believe in this day of our present technology there isn't a system in place to render an entire passenger cabin unconscious. What happened to the Sky Marshall program as well? It practically stopped the hi-jackings of the 1960's & 1970's and these were terrorist doing them as well.
Our rights and freedoms are indeed under attack an attack as bad or worse as the terrorist themselves. When our elected leaders have to even think twice or consider beyond 2 minutes the possibilities of our military, citizens, and even elected leaders being answerable to a world court someone in office slept through their grade school and high school history and goverment classes or is a closet socialist one of the two.
'Those who trade freedom for security deserve neither' -Ben Franklen
We can have added security without loosing our rights and our freedoms. It is very simple: deal with illeagals. Gut the agencys that have failed us and have the government do its primary job: protect the AMERICAN people and not the world. Proper border control should not be that difficult.
"Suppose all draconian restrictions were applied to all non-citizens: they all had to be tracked and registered upon entry to this country and every one had to notify the police or immigration bureau when they moved. Would this be sufficient security for the nation?"
In addition, legal residents were required to register every year.
Currently, we still don't track people leaving the country, so we cannot track any persons who come legally into this country and the stay, illegally. We should track everyone leaving to assure that they leave, when they agreed.
These are the wars currently being lost, because we don't even know we are at war.
In case the government doesn't know, it's OK to watch foreigners, as a matter of fact, it's the LAW, and has been for decades. The government is supposed to know who they are and where they are and what they are doing.
Americans are going to die so that everyone can feel politically correct. Then on the nightly news, they will say really nice things about the people who died and everyone will fill really warm inside. They will also say that we need to give up some more freedoms.
Solution - Eliminate the security risks. Deport every Muslim in this country. They preach hate and disdain for America. Deport every foreign student. Stop all immigration NOW for two years.
We are at war, lets act like it and eliminate any potential threat within our borders.
By “security”, I mean protection or assurance of safety from acts of war and crime, including acts of terrorism. I include protection from nuclear attacks, cyber attacks, suicide bombing, kidnapping, mugging, rapes, and robbery. In short, security based in the broadest sense I can imagine.
Which of our individual rights is also a contribution to national security,if it were not infringed upon as it it today?
Easy answer. None. Ben Franklin had some interesting thoughts regarding this.
There never was a good war or a bad peace
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
Be careful when using the most socialist of the founders as your source of record.
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