Do we need another civil rights movement?

Question

I'm not referring to a racial and equality civil rights movement...more or less a movement to put the government back in the hands of where it belongs, its citizens?

Is it safe to say that the government has impeeded in our lives, for good and bad, entirely way to much?

Answer 1

When citizens grant the government the power to take away it's liberties, it is the fault of the citizenry, not the government.

The people are willing to give up so much of their civil rights because they are afraid and believe that the government having all this authority can better protect them.

What we need is honesty from our government. The people first need to know what is going on. When people know the truth, only then can they come to the real decision that the government has impeded more in our lives than is necessary. When people are afraid, they do anything the person they believe can protect them ask. This is not just about protecting us from terrorists.. this has been going on for years.

Michael Moore did a bit to highlight American's fear in his film, "Bowling For Columbine".

Answer 2

What are your civil rights??

You rights stop when they violate the rights of someone else.

You have the right to free speech, until you verbally abuse someone else.

You have th right to free press, until you slander another person in writing.

You have the right to bear arms, until you use a firearm against another person in a crime.

You have the freedom to worship as you see fit, or not worship at all.

The government does not control these rights, it only punished people who violate your rights.

You can sit back, remain silent, stay in the dark, whatever you want.

To not have a government to protect your rights would be anarchy.

Thank GOD for the USA...its not perfect, but then who is?

Answer 3

There are several civil rights movements already at work. Including a movement for g*y rights and another for women's rights. These movements are neccesary due to congressional and state laws attempting to limit these rights.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The only way to stop government is to restrict its ability to tax and redistribute wealth. If the government didn't spend a trillion dollars a year it would not have the ability to affect your life.

Less $ = Less Governement = More Freedom

Answer 6

I though we live in a free country and people choose not to vote. And free press keeps a check on our government with scandels and pork and corruption. This country would be great if people just focused on making themselves better instead of others. When was the last time the government stopped you from doing anything.

Answer 7

Usually if I need a movement, a little bran does wonders.

Answer 8

all you have to do is use the power of the ballot box for that , vote both the Republicans and Democrats out , they've shown over the last 20 years that the ones in power are only interested in lining there own pockets

vote 3rd party

the only wasted vote is for the status quo

Answer 9

Don;t think so.

Too many out there.

We all end up becoming uncivillised

With all the cave-men out there.

What we need is to come up with a solution and solve the misery of living human kind.

And we are not doing that.

So what went wrong out there?

Answer 10

Americans need to wake up and get the sleep out of their eyes.  Most of the lethargy is from 30 years of educators teaching American students How to hate their own country.  Americans are giving their rights away.

Answer 11

the question is ... Are Americans willing to make the sacrifices and tough choices necessary to change  --  or are we too fat, dumb and happy to bother?

If the press is not effective at pointing out abuses, they are failing at their primary mission (as a good man put it: "To comfort the afficted and affict the comfortable").

Yes, I think we're at a crisis point. Taking away basic civil liberties is a serious matter, because once taken away, it's almost impossible to get them back. As a rule, they don't get taken away by dramatic strokes, but rather eaten away, eroded.  That's what Bush and company (read Cheney) are doing.  The difficulty is that a lot of people simply don't care, either because they approve of harsh treatment of people they perceive as enemies, or because they simply use all their energy just getting through the day.

The hope is the peculiar genius of a democratic form of government. Over time it tends to balance itself, to correct wild swings that result from crises and reach a stable point. It remains to be seen whether we can do that under the current stresses.  Winston Churchill said that democracy is a very poor form of government --- but it's better than any other form we have been able to come up with.

The people at the controls right now are ideologues, and if they have their way we will end up with some kind of unholy alliance of big business and Christian conservatism.  Military-industrial theocracy isn't something I would like to live under. I used to vote Republican. I won't anymore.  I didn't leave the GOP; they left me. But the Dems aren't much better. A viable Independent Party might be the answer, but the pols on both sides of the aisle will do their level best to stop that from happening, because it threatens their grip on power.   Yeah, I'd call that a crisis. W will go down, I am confident, as the worst President we have ever had, against some stiff competition (e.g., Harding).  The damage he has done -- diplomatic, social, financial, military -- will take generations to correct. He richly deserves to be impeached, or even tried as a war criminal.  But I don't think we are up to that, for reasons cited above.