Should the 'war on terror' over-ride our personal liberties...

Question

Should Police have over-riding powers to enter our property, detain us, question us, hold us, deprive us of our civil liberties, all in the name of the 'war on terror'? At what point would you be prepared to make a stand against this intrusion, or do you think we are all fair game in the struggle against our enemies, imaginary or otherwise?

Answer 1

Never.  Otherwise our enemies have defeated us.

Answer 2

if you will give up your freedom for safety.....you will have neither!

Answer 3

I see the actions of the police as protecting my personal liberty and my right to walk down the street, or get on a bus without being blown to bits. I work in central London and regularly walk past where the bus blew up near Euston Station. Two of my colleagues were killed by that bomb, one was a Bangladeshi refugee escaping persecution in her own country

Answer 4

No, the Republicans hate the 4th amendment.

Answer 5

Should the police or the government have any reason to enter my property I will meet them at the street and welcome them. You see I understand that the world changed on 9-11-01, and that we must change with it. And if the government needs to listen to you talk to your hair stylist then so be it.

Answer 6

Well, i think the victims of 7/7 would argue that terrorism isnt imagined.

I would rather a few people were upset by a search and a few weeks in jail, than loads of innocent people being blown to smithereens on their way to work on the tube.

Answer 7

hard one to answer - yes they should have these powers so they can act before anything happens,  so there not cutting red tape to get something done,

Should they be able to do that to me,  then no!!

Should they be able to stop anyone on the street and search them -  yes!!!

How much do i kick off in asda, when they don't take the security tag of and i have to have my shopping re check,  loads and loads!!

Give and take - Im a good member of the public i can't see why these rules would affect me and if they did it would be cleared up quickly and then i could sue there **** and have a nice holiday -

If you had family in the london or 911 i suppose you would look at it differently( I didn't)

But if something happened in your town - and the police had an idea but couldn't arrest, stop, search, detain them cause of there civil liberties.

I think you would be singing from a different  sheet!!

If you have nothing to hide,  whats the problem!!

Answer 8

Absolutely not ever! Terrorism is a real threat to our world though. The police are not overriding our personal liberties.

Answer 9

If the police have a Valid Reason to enter my property in the way you described, then I don't have a problem with it.

If it leads to the capture of terrorists who pose a threat, then I don't see it as being a problem.

Answer 10

No,

What many people do not understand is that police could already do all of the above, if they received consent from the courts or in an extreme case the Secretary of State.

All the 'new powers' in the various Terror Bills are really making these extreme existing powers routine so that they can be used against everybody, and not the small number of bad eggs who commit and support terrorism.

If you read recent MoD reports the most severe terrorist threat in the UK is ex-IRA dissidents, i.e. exactly the same threat as 25 years ago. So why are all these new powers required?

While the government is getting unprecedented access to your life, successive "Freedom of Information Acts" are actually reducing your right to know what the government is doing.

Answer 11

Western Governments commit inside jobs.

Answer 12

if them filthy pigs try comin in my house they better d**n well bring the marines with them. that patriot act bs is just a way to violate the law without reprocussions.i have alot of guns n bullets waitin on them and ill fight them oppressive b******s to my death if thats what it takes to be free.its my DUTY and my RIGHT to stand up to the government when they get out of hand and they are way outta control. who the h**l do they think they r

Answer 13

The 'War on Terror' is a useful description for many governmental inroads into personal liberty and to boost arms budgets. There can be no 'War on Terror' any more than there the can be a 'War on Majority' or any other noun. It is an invisible enemy and simply conjured up to suit many of the dubious aims of Western governments especailly the USA.

Answer 14

You must remember that its not the police that are doing it, Well physically yes, they are getting paid to do it. But its the government thats make the bigger decisions. so really the question is, Do you think your government should be able to over-ride your personal liberties.

If its to protect you, then yes.  

Answer 15

No - That would be GIVING in to terrorism.

Can you imagine Margaret Thatcher giving in to the terrorists by curtailing our freedom - no way would she (and she was nearly killed in the Brighton bombing)

Bottler Brown and the poodle were too gutless to stand up for UK freedom so now we're all on some massive database that they've probably gone and lost on a bus somewhere.

Answer 16

i think that they should, on the condition that if they screwed up, got the wrong house were miss informed by outsoruced intelgence work to china whatever, the person who was wrongfuly harsed gets to do the same to evrybody involved in his experince.

in short no