Do you laugh when you hear CONS say we are not losing our rights?

Question

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigations.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records questions.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.

RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.

FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.

RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.

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Answer 1

Yes allowing the terrorist to plan 9-11 by barring the CIA & FBI from working together was the way to go and you are an American I assume.

Good luck your party politics allowed this to happen you are blamingt he people who saved you, all I can say is WOW!

Answer 2

Laugh? No. They use security as an excuse to give themselves more power. And the scary thing is that they are getting away with it.

Answer 3

FEAR!

TERRORISM!

ANTHRAX!

9/11!

These are probably the only type of answers you're going to get.

Answer 4

I laugh when I hear anybody say we are losing our rights....I'm big on being safe from planeloads of people flying into buildings I might be in or tank trucks full of gas blowing up on the interstates..besides I'm not a terrorist or a criminal

Answer 5

To the answerer above who said that they "saved" us...from what?  Certainly not 9/11.  

I saw a movie over the weekend about Brazil in 1970, when it was ruled by a dictatorship, which used the scare of Communism to keep people's support, even though it was a cruel regime.  I saw how eerily similar it is to today and the scare of terrorists to erode at our rights.   We're being controlled through our fears, and if you don't see that, you are a lamb going to slaughter.

Answer 6

do you know what the word "may" means?...lol...dork!

Answer 7

Its not the average Joe American that has lost that right, its the terrorists that we are fighting that have lost rights.  The only people that have suffered under these loss of rights are the POW's (there is your "hundreds of people imprisoned without charge") that we capture ON THE BATTLEFIELD, and terrorists that we have captured at home (with evidence that we are now able to gather because of the "Loss of rights")

Do you think that we monitor everyone in this nation?  We monitor SUSPECTED institutions and SUSPECTED persons.

Answer 8

1. How does government monitoring some groups prevent you from freely associating? What about the liberal-supported groups that eliminated all-male clubs and sports?

2. Not all information is, nor should it all be, open to the public. Specifically when it comes to people (not necessarily US citizens, btw) detained due to national security concerns, the knowledge they've been detained could itself be detrimental to national security.

The Democrat Congress has passed legislation allowing them to hide their earmarks in bills without having to say who sponsored it. Where's your outrage over that?

3. That's a very, very limited an narrow instance. The liberal-supported ACLU has caused schools to prevent students from even mentioning their faith, or God, in speeches. That's a direct and gross violation of the 1st Amendment. What about that?

4. Why hasn't the vaunted Democrat Congress changed this law, then?

5. You have a right to be secure against UNREASONABLE searches. But in matters of national security, as opposed to criminal investigation, the presidency has the inherent authority to allow unwarranted searches. This has been a policy for a long time now.

6. That's only for those detained due to national security issues, rather than for criminal offenses. Different rules apply. Always have.

Answer 9

Yes,and I shudder at the LIBS saying they'll restore them.Not a dime's worth of difference between the two.Both parties are Globalist sell-outs.

Answer 10

No, I laugh at your parents!

Answer 11

If you aren't doing anything wrong..what's the problem. Seriously? Government wants to come to church with me..they're more than welcome. Immigrants need to become citizens of America and stop stealing the resources taken out of my hard earned paychecks. Anyone is still allowed to become a US citizen. That whole legal representation thing is BS..I work for the police department. So what if the government searches my papers...they want to read my credit card bill that's fine. I have nothing to hide. Do you? And finally, the speedy and public trial is not right either. Not all trials are or have ever been "public" and a person is not jailed for no probable cause. You should see the hurdles we jump through just to book in a criminal!

Answer 12

No I don't laugh. There is nothing funny about this. The fact some refuse to see it. Yet others defend it. Causes me great concern as to the direction our free country is taking.