Loss of civil liberties?

You are right, Can you believe some of the Answers to your questions? complaining about security at airports? yea it ruins my day to have to remove my shoe's for a few at the airport(sarcasm) I don't care if my government needs to listen to my phone calls, Hope Their not put to sleep(sarcasm) It seems to me the only Americans losing rights are the 4th graders who have to smile a false smile while they have the gay lifestyle pushed down their little throats. I saw that military recruiters are denied free speech at some universities. I can't say spearchucker anymore without getting called a racist(even if talking about early hunting groups in Africa.(just a point about how fast a person can be called a racist these days)

For starters, if you are accused of a crime, Yahoo will gladly turn over everything you've posted here.

If you make an overseas call, it will almost certainly be monitored by the NSA.

If you try to protest Bush at a campaign rally, you will be forcibly removed by Secret Service agents

If you apply for a U.S. government-funded job, you may be asked your religious affiliation

In some states, your children will be forced to learn the Biblical story of creation in their science classes

Virtually EVERYWHERE you walk in America is now covered by some sort of a security camera, which is most likely justified in the name of the "War on Terror."

need more?

Check out the potential for governmental abuses in the Patriot Act. It has been said that 'that will never happen.' Personally, I'm not so sure. With illegal wiretaps going on (just because a person has nothing to hide doesn't make it right), who knows what else our elected officials are up to.

Not to mention GCA '68 and other instances that I will post later (been up since 0700 10/17 -- I'm a little tired; it's now 0216 10/18).

Time for us Independents to convince the 'Party Lemmings' to vote with us and get rid of these mongrels, Dem and Rep alike. Believe me, I'm trying.

Actual rights? The Nazis didn't start by taking 'actual rights,' either, but if you want it here it is -- GCA '68. This has led to many innocent people being jailed on trumped-up weapons charges. The illegal wiretapping has led to invasion of privacy that is protected Constitutionally; i.e., loss of rights.

And let's take a look at the so-called 'Patriot Act.' How many items are we BANNED from taking on airliners? If it were a true patriot act, we would be REQUIRED to carry knives with 6-8" blades. Being Joe Cameljockey, I wouldn't even dream of hijacking a plane with everyone armed. With this you would have safety, not in banning people from protecting themselves. In my opinion, the brave folks of Flight 90 died in vain due to this moronic law. Also consider, if only one person is wronfully imprisoned, a precedence has been set and EVERYONE is in danger. If you really are a history major, you need to do some more digging, friend. You are treading a slippery slope.

uncertain how sympathetic they have been in the previous, yet i do no longer think of they like western rules now. It would not look many human beings see the shortcoming of civil liberties as a victory for Osama, which it is. He has been waiting to realize very lots for the attempt invested, if the story is incredibly actual. it may be exciting to comprehend how issues could be if we had accomplished no longer something different than to make stronger our border and air protection and had no longer taken action in any respect in the mid-east. i think of we would be safer and extra economically wealthy if we hadn't taken Osama's or whoever's bait. It replaced into no longer something extra desirable than a trick performed against the gullible and vengeful people who dominate vote casting u.s.. they could do properly to endure in strategies the suggestion of the Godfather, "in no way hate your enemies, it interferes alongside with your judgment." Or the clever adult adult males Wilkes and Butler in "long gone with the Wind" who recommend the extra youthful and ignorant southerners to no longer get enthused approximately conflict--in ineffective.

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 gives the US President the power to detain indefinitely anyone—US or foreign nationals, from within the US, and from abroad—it deems to have provided material support to anti-US hostilities, and even use secret and coerced evidence (i.e. through use of torture) to try detainees who will be held in secret US military prisons.

If the US President believes you to be supporting anti-US hostilities, he can have you detained indefinitely.

Our President has been given despotic power under our noses. Shouldn't we be scared?

They lost the idealistic ramblings of a nonexistent parallel universe. We have it made here. I don't care what anybody says. I would like to see a lot of people go just one day without hot water or fast food. We are so spoiled it's not even funny.

The one I know we lost is the one to engage in political speech - look at the McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" law.

But most of the socialists/leftists on this board applaud that.

You have lost the right to communicate with other persons of private form.

You have lost the right to be represented by an attorney if someone denounces you for terrorism.

You have lost the right not to be manipulated by the mass media And I do not say it only, the international community says it.

Already you do not live in the country of the freedoms friend.

Certainly, if there is so much freedom...

Where the communists are in your country?

Is it that there is none?

Have I to believe it?

The only freedom we've lost is the ability to shoot spies on sight, like it was back in WWII

I'm free to do as I want as long as I take responsibility for my actions .

the ones who complain , fear the responsibility , some would go so far as to give aid to our enemies .

Not one can name an American who has been jailed without cause .