How can the government have so incredibly much access in our private lives in what is supposed to be a free

Question

society? anyone can just up and call a government organization anymore, 500 times if they wish; just because they hate you; and have you investigated repeatedly. Someone give me an explaination as to why we, as American citizens allow this perversion to continue on. Are we not actually what is considered a Republic for the people, by the people, I don't recall the government being a controlling factor when this country was founded, but it seems everywhere I go, everything I do , everything I say is censored, governed, investigated, watched, authorized, controlled..................etc....BY THE GOVERNMENT!!!!

Answer 1

Wake up. Everything is controlled by government. They put you in a "Matrix" of false information, which is aimed on influence on your mind. They use you as a source of income. If new president will continue the policy of aggression, you will be able to do nothing. Public protests have no real effect.

Matrix has you...

Answer 2

The Streets would have to run with blood to take back our rights.  Tyrannical Governments don't give people their freedom by people saying "Oh Please Government, can we have some freedom, we're asking nicely, why won't you give us some freedoms".  They fought and died to establish the freedoms that the people of today don't give a c**p about.  One Day, The people are going to have to put the government in check, and it's going to be a revolution by the people for the people.

Answer 3

The reason is we have idiots in Congress, and we as citizens VOTED for them. THEY passed the PATRIOT Act which effectively removes civil rights written in the Constitution. Dubya essentially says, if I say it is so, then it IS so, because I said it. If unchallenged in the courts, then his word DOES effectively BECOME, the LAW. It is time we voted the bums out and repealed the EXECUTIVE ORDERS that the president has written which exempt him and his cronies from being prosecuted in the courts for violating our civil rights. Catch 22...

Answer 4

You should try living in a middle-eastern country where a lot of people really don't have the freedoms we do here.

Answer 5

Because anytime something happens you will ask why wasn't something done to avoid it! If folks like you didn't always throw up your hands and point fingers everytime something tragic happens the government wouldn't be going through every means to try to keep us safe. You have to pick and choose, absolute freedom or safety? If you have nothing to hide... you would pick safety.  

Answer 6

""We've taken care of everything the words you read the songs you sing the picture's that give pleasure to your eye!" (Rush side "A" 2112)

It Ain't the Democrats!

that is my answer

Answer 7

b/c we don't care....some of us say we care and many of us think we care, but time and time again we vote the same people back into office, we allow the media to dictate the news to us...we focus 24 hours to news, but the 'news' we get is recycled opinion, biased viewpoints, and skimming the issues. We allow this to happen b/c we are complacent...until something directly and immediately and severely affects us, we will do nothing to stop it. We don't like that the government has so much control, but we feel powerless to stop it, we feel too busy, stressed, overworked, underpaid, into our own affairs, etc. to actually demand more....so we get stuck with what we have and we grow to see it as inevitable and ok...as long as it doesn't get any worse...and slowly our rights and our freedoms are slipping away..

Answer 8

Because we, like SHEEP, do NOTHING to revolt.

We let the government and Department of Homeland Security get away with anything. Recently, DHS decided that:

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing [...] The policies state that officers may "detain" laptops "for a reasonable period of time" to "review and analyze information." This may take place "absent individualized suspicion."

The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cellphones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover "all papers and other written documentation," including books, pamphlets and "written materials commonly referred to as 'pocket trash' or 'pocket litter.' "

Answer 9

Which government agency do you think is investigating you?  

Answer 10

James Madison* once observed that a threat from abroad, real or imagined, normally leads to a loss of liberties at home.  Frightened people don't question what their government is doing if it makes them feel safer.  Bush did it with the Muslims, Hitler did it with the Jews, go back far enough and Demosthenes of Athens did it with the Macedonians during the time of Alexander the Great.  The true danger is that freedoms once given away are extremely hard to get back, which is something we are only now beginning to re-learn.