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Re: Re: Surveillance
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Posted by Erich on February 21, 2002 at 17:31:43 from (209.246.92.133):
In Reply to: Re: Surveillance posted by RAB on February 21, 2002 at 10:39:20:
I doubt if I'm the only one to realize it, but they've had to wait a long time to come up with something that could scare us into coughing up money that we don't have to fight an enemy we can't really identify. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has been a hard sell to convince the American public that they should turn a blind eye and give the government a free hand (Now we see that they lied to us about that threat, but they probably aren't lying this time, right?). The stuff that is going on now would have been out of the question last year. They sell us a police state, and claim to be on the side of less government. We accept it because we've had the tar scared out of us. I'ts time we had a little perspective on this. I live 10 blocks from 'ground zero', so I have some first hand knowlege that this is not nearly as scary as it is being made out to be. I lament the lost lives and destruction, but we lose hundreds of times as many people to automobile accidents and cigarette smoking than we ever have lost to terrorists. We don't deserve to call ourselves Americans if we can't deal with minor disturbances without bending over backwards at the drop of a hat to give up the rights that our forefathers faught and gave their lives for. Patriots don't trade freedom for safety.
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