Do you feel safer now than before 9/11??!!
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After more than a decade fighting the "Global War on Terror" and with the death of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden the bombing in the Middle East continues. It is no secret that many security measures were taken and policy changes made to ensure that Americans would feel safe and confident in their government. Americans understood that the only way to ensure our victory would be to do whatever it takes.
The Patriot Act established under the Bush administration and later extended by the Obama administration, for our safety, allowed legal wiretapping of our phone calls and e-mails and general spying on people without a warrant.
The Department of Homeland Security and the TSA where also added to the fed budget at the annual cost of nearly 100 Billion. They quickly went to work implementing full body scanners, pat-downs and overall harrassment at the airport. They have also set up random check points to randomly stop and search vehicles and people without a warrant or probable cause.
The NDAA signed under the Obama administration and supported by Mitt Romney includes provisions for the military to arrest and indefinately detain US citizens and hold them in secret prisons without charge, lawyer or trial doing away completely with the Bill of Rights.
H.R. 347 Trespass bill recently passed to keep people from trespassing on federal restricted buildings and grounds. "Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country." Thereby making this type of freedom of speech unlawful.
Congress has recently approved an FAA re-authorization act that calls for 30,000 spy drones by 2020 to patrol the skies ending a right to privacy.
In conclusion, as we continue seeing the further militarization of local police, court-approved gps vehicle trackers, and possible rfid National ID cards....and now that our homes and neighborhoods have become the "battlefield"...
Do you feel safer now than before 9/11??!!
Top Opinion
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john Kills 2012/04/30 16:48:58No, I do not feel safer
+7I feel more threatened by the coming police state than I ever felt by the terrorists.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!! And bull at that.
We are not safe,none of us.
So if the war on terrorism is over. What the hell is going on now? The war on Americans?
In March 2009 the Defense Department officially changed the name of operations from "Global War on Terror" to "Overseas Contingency Operation" (OCO).[35] In March 2009, the Obama administration requested that Pentagon staff members avoid use of the term, instead using "Overseas Contingency Operation".[35] - Wiki
I believe the "TSA groping" should continue to prevent aircraft hijackings regardless of the Islamist threat.
Benjamin Franklin
TSA searches may be as invasive as customs searches for good reason! You can avoid both by avoiding those portals.
Do you believe that customs searches are "unreasonable" IAW the 4th Amendment?
Customs searches are entirely different. Any Country has the right to search what is coming in. We are talking about travel within the
country.
How can you say the searching a toddler or an elderly person in a wheelchair is reasonable? Radiating people, putting their hands in peoples pants without changing their glove, walking bear foot on a dirty floor. Reasonable? You sir are delusional.