said by pnh102 :

... except for the fact that I work in an area that would probably be in the fallout zone of a terrorist attack.

said by Noah Vail :

I have moved from support of my government to defending myself from my government.

said by en102 :

What other country have you lived in to experience this ?

said by pnh102 :

I think too many people in the USA have no idea what it like to live under a tyrannical, repressive government. I still stand by my view that no one's rights have been violated on a scale major enough to make the claim that we have no rights.

It isn't like the government is rounding up all the people in this country who disagree with the government and making them disappear. The government isn't shutting down websites or newspapers critical of it. The government isn't doing anything infringing more than it has in recent years. I don't see any systemic, prolonged violation of our rights under this administration compared to previous administrations.

I do think though that the Democrat party, in its neverending quest to secure our defeat, is doing everything it can to embolden our enemies. By putting a stop to the government's ability to wiretap, it enables people who would want to do us harm to use another means of communication to do so.

said by Kevin Dupuy :

th government should be able to take away any rights, especially those written into the Bill of Rights!

said by Kevin Dupuy :

By the way, I've been seeing 'scare-mongering' ads on TV like "THe Senate approved the bill to hear what terrorists are planning.

said by Noah Vail :

That was while we were arguing over a warrant for one call at a time.

Today, we are cloning all the internet traffic running through peer pipes, and handing the FBI unrestricted access to all Verizon traffic.

This is a pretty good definition of the government spying on all of us. I have moved from support of my government to defending myself from my government.

NV

said by pnh102 :

I don't have to live anywhere else to know.

I do however, read about the daily lives of people living in places like the old Soviet bloc, North Korea, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Cuba to know that in the USA, we have it very good.

You don't have to pee on an electric fence to know that it is generally a bad idea.

said by Tzale :

A good citizen doesn't "support" the Government. A good citizen CRITICIZES the Government... Thomas Jefferson and our founding fathers said it themselves... The Government should fear YOU, you should NOT fear the Government.

-Tzale

said by SilentMan :

Venezuela? You have been watching too much Faux News.

said by pnh102 :

And if you watched any news at all you might not sound like such an idiot when you say that. Perhaps you should try googling for criticisms of Hugo Chavez's human rights record before you spew more verbal diarrhea.

Oh, and I'm adding Bolivia to that list. The fact that 4 eastern states of that country want to secede from the rest of Bolivia is also telling.

said by mech1164 :

Quite true, but what is the first responsibility of government? To protect its people from threats. Be that external or internal. By what the Dems in the House are doing we can't do neither. BTW for all those people that cry out Privacy, PSST they don't care. You are not that sanctimoniously worth it to them.

said by ackman :

Any you're feeling pretty confident in the United States' record on human rights? When did we let women start to vote? How about how we treat people of color?

said by ackman :

I'm proud to be an American, I'm ashamed and embarrassed of our government.

said by jc100 :

Damn.. there was this site.. hummm that the government shut down in violation of first amendment rights.. Let's see.. Wikileaks... O ya, guess they are targeting people.