What many people don't realize is that, until labeled as terrorists, terrorists have the same rights as you. You know that you're not a terrorist, but the gov't doesn't. Whatever rights you want, you have to be fully ready to give those rights, and more*, to terrorists.
I think the United States is great the way it is, objectivly. But, we harbor an overall sense of trust, which is easy for terrorists to abuse. And as long as we want the gov't to trust us, we have to trust terrorists and wait until they break that trust to treat them differently than us. This greatly increases the ability of terrorists to do their thing.
*I say terrorists get more rights than you or I because they are working our freedoms to gain as much as possible from them. I'd assume most non-terrorists don't push to make sure we're getting every single freedom we're owed.
when you say
"Find every terrorist, expel them into space, and DON'T TREAD ON ME! "
you forget that until someone is determined to be a terrorist, they are equivalent to you. If you want privacy, you have to accept that you are also going to give the same level of privacy to terrorists.
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What many people don't realize is that, until labeled as terrorists, terrorists have the same rights as you. You know that you're not a terrorist, but the gov't doesn't. Whatever rights you want, you have to be fully ready to give those rights, and more*, to terrorists.
I think the United States is great the way it is, objectivly. But, we harbor an overall sense of trust, which is easy for terrorists to abuse. And as long as we want the gov't to trust us, we have to trust terrorists and wait until they break that trust to treat them differently than us. This greatly increases the ability of terrorists to do their thing.
*I say terrorists get more rights than you or I because they are working our freedoms to gain as much as possible from them. I'd assume most non-terrorists don't push to make sure we're getting every single freedom we're owed.
when you say
"Find every terrorist, expel them into space, and DON'T TREAD ON ME! "
you forget that until someone is determined to be a terrorist, they are equivalent to you. If you want privacy, you have to accept that you are also going to give the same level of privacy to terrorists.