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What is National Safety?

Contributed by: Paul Tiger on 2/27/2006

There are many pollsters and politicos trying to figure out if Americans feel safe. It seems that many people hold 9/11 as the milestone for losing a sense of national safety. Even though we had many incidents of domestic terrorism before 9/11, most people consider this date to be the event horizon after which they were concerned for national safety.

One of the first responses that the administration had to instill a sense of safety was the Patriot Act. Though passed by congress, it was the brainchild of the administration.

Like most federal legislation, it is long and a difficult read. And legislators, just like the rest of us, have a difficult time reading piles and piles of documents before they just can’t anymore. So like with many other pieces of legislation, few people read it. And just like in the past, it became law.   "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 The Patriot Act is tyrannical. On its own it might be fine, especially in Peru, Mexico, or Cuba. But when compared to the US constitution; Declaration of Independence; and the constitutions of most of the states in our republic – the Act is an abomination.

In an effort to maintain a ‘safe feeling’ the authors of this work have revoked the liberties of all. You needn’t worry about anyone looking up how to make C4 on the Internet, because the providing the information; thinking about looking it up; looking it up; writing about it; discussing it with others – are all terrible crimes.

You can feel safe that no one is thinking about making a bomb because the federal government tells everyone that doing so will result in that person; everyone they know; everyone they’ve ever talked to – in being domestic terror suspects. Free speech often angers people. They hear something that frightens them. They could stop listening. They could speak in opposition. Or they can quake in fear and demand that their government do something. The ones that make these demands are not supportive of our constitution and national strengths.

America has been strong in the past because of her citizens. They have faced up to the dark enemies. They showed what a nation can be when liberty is the leader. Were we safe then?

Are we safer as independent free thinkers? Should those that don’t understand that it takes freedom to stand up to the fear mongers, have us all relinquish it for their peace of mind? If we have less freedom now than before the passage of the Patriot Act, then it is only logical that we should be more fearful. I am fearful. Not of foreign powers making attacks on the US, but of my government’s support of tyranny, both here and abroad.

Paul Tiger -- Libertarian


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Paul Tiger

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Paul Tiger has posted 61 stories and 25 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Paul Tiger 's average story rating is 4.44.
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