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Readers Don’t Think Civil Liberties Should Be Violated To Protect Us

September 21, 2011 Sunday Poll 4 Comments

The poll last week began on September 11th so the topic was related:

The government should do whatever it takes to protect its citizens against terrorism —even if it means violating civil liberties

  1. Disagree 80 [76.92%]
  2. Agree 15 [14.42%]
  3. unsure/no opinion 9 [8.65%]

I didn’t have any expectations on the results ahead of time. I know that a decade ago many more would have agreed.

– Steve Patterson

 

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  1. samizdat says:

    The people who agree are idiots, in addition to being a bunch of irrational little p*ssies. If you tools like living in a police security (blanket) state, may I suggest that you pack it up and move your sorry asses to China, Iran, Syria, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, or any of the other countries in the world which “protect” their citizens by shrouding them in a cocoon of tyranny and despotism. Any fool who wishes away his/her human rights for a false sense of security doesn’t have the education or the informed mind to wish this tyranny on their fellow citizens. If you are so gripped by the irrational fear of “terrorists”, may I suggest that you seek professional help. My enemy is not some imaginary foreign spectre, my enemy is the domestic Christian terrorist, and the corporate supranationals and the fascism which they promote under the smokescreen of “security” and the falsehood that they are “job creators”. We are the job creators, by creating demand for a product or a service. No demand, no jobs. Of course, if that job is now in China, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, India, located in a no-tax, no regulation “free enterprise zone”, subsidized by the government, it doesn’t much benefit us, does it? Personally, it is my belief that any enterprise which generates profit at the expense of human and other animal life is operating in both an immoral and unethical manner, and should it further decide to utilize that profit against the interests of the citizenry, it should be forced to forfeit that said profit to the state, and thus to us, the people. Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfien, in addition to Bernie Madoff, are no less terroristic in their actions than Osama bin Laden and Timothy McVeigh were. 

     
  2. samizdat says:

    The people who agree are idiots, in addition to being a bunch of irrational little p*ssies. If you tools like living in a police security (blanket) state, may I suggest that you pack it up and move your sorry asses to China, Iran, Syria, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, or any of the other countries in the world which “protect” their citizens by shrouding them in a cocoon of tyranny and despotism. Any fool who wishes away his/her human rights for a false sense of security doesn’t have the education or the informed mind to wish this tyranny on their fellow citizens. If you are so gripped by the irrational fear of “terrorists”, may I suggest that you seek professional help. My enemy is not some imaginary foreign spectre, my enemy is the domestic Christian terrorist, and the corporate supranationals and the fascism which they promote under the smokescreen of “security” and the falsehood that they are “job creators”. We are the job creators, by creating demand for a product or a service. No demand, no jobs. Of course, if that job is now in China, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, India, located in a no-tax, no regulation “free enterprise zone”, subsidized by the government, it doesn’t much benefit us, does it? Personally, it is my belief that any enterprise which generates profit at the expense of human and other animal life is operating in both an immoral and unethical manner, and should it further decide to utilize that profit against the interests of the citizenry, it should be forced to forfeit that said profit to the state, and thus to us, the people. Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfien, in addition to Bernie Madoff, are no less terroristic in their actions than Osama bin Laden and Timothy McVeigh were. 

     
    • samizdat says:

      ps: and no, I didn’t agree with the Patriot Act (what a mindf*ck of Marketing/PR(opaganda) that name is) ten years ago, and I wasn’t exactly thrilled with the “updates” to the FISA law–for which, I might add, Obama voted–which came about in 2007. The fact that our country still holds–and tortures–thousands in black sites across the globe illustrates how this fearfulness has warped the consciousness of the average American to the point of advocating this barbarity. Of course, in addition to these thousands, Bradley Manning still sits in a brig, having been held–WITHOUT CHARGE, a clear and unmistakable violation of his Constitutional rights (you remember the Constitution, dontcha folks?)–for at least two years, a victim of a political vendetta. Bradley Manning is, in fact, a political prisoner, as they have not charged him with any crime. Though through the Marketing/PR(opaganda) arm of the government, he has been tried and convicted in the corporate supranational-run media.

       
  3. samizdat says:

    ps: and no, I didn’t agree with the Patriot Act (what a mindf*ck of Marketing/PR(opaganda) that name is) ten years ago, and I wasn’t exactly thrilled with the “updates” to the FISA law–for which, I might add, Obama voted–which came about in 2007. The fact that our country still holds–and tortures–thousands in black sites across the globe illustrates how this fearfulness has warped the consciousness of the average American to the point of advocating this barbarity. Of course, in addition to these thousands, Bradley Manning still sits in a brig, having been held–WITHOUT CHARGE, a clear and unmistakable violation of his Constitutional rights (you remember the Constitution, dontcha folks?)–for at least two years, a victim of a political vendetta. Bradley Manning is, in fact, a political prisoner, as they have not charged him with any crime. Though through the Marketing/PR(opaganda) arm of the government, he has been tried and convicted in the corporate supranational-run media.

     

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