Community poll forum: Which do you think is the biggest security threat?

They are doing it for our security, though.

Amen!!!

...to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin.

I refuse to give up any liberty granted to me by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke

This reply get's my vote.

The shrub administration wants you to be in fear so they can violate the law, the Constitution, your civil rights without being brought to justice. We should not allow this. He is the bigest threat to the U.S.

The White house wiretapping security scam. How does spying on Democrats make America safer? Better yet, how can so many educated Americans be so dense?

The "last time you checked"? Give me a break, you have no clue as to whom Bush is spying on or why. You are just another nit witted sheeple. All the education in the world can't teach one common sense. Now, isn't that interesting? By the way , please check again for me. The last time I checked Bush declared his traitor activities "classified", and won't let me find out anything. Since you can, do you mind passing some info my way? Thank you.

No one, not one thinking person would think there is a greater threat to the security of this country, our technology or the world more insidious than the current administration. To some extent you are right, however misguided you may be. If 40% of the American public is in such a state of perpetual fear, I guess they have enough problems without being burdened by individual thought!



A man can seldom -- very, very seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. For many a year -- perhaps always -- the training of the two nations (the US and the UK) had been dead against independence in political thought, persistently inhospitable toward patriotism manufactured on a mans own premises, patriotism reasoned out in the mans own head and fire-assayed and tested and proved in his own conscience. The resulting patriotism was a shopworn product procured at second hand. The patriot did not know just how or when or where he got his opinions, neither did he care, so long as he was with what seemed the majority -- which was the main thing, the safe thing, the comfortable thing. Does the reader believe he knows three men who have actual reasons for their pattern of patriotism -- and can furnish them? Let him not examine, unless he wants to be disappointed. He will be likely to find that his men got their patriotism at the public trough, and had no hand in its preparation themselves.

-Mark Twain

OK... lets think about security...
As a citizen of the US, my primary concern is FREEDOM, a history of democratic principles, and the welfare of my fellow citizens.

Now, let's see how the White House fairs...
1. Are my communications secure? Nope... we now eavesdrop on citizens.
2. Democratic principles? Heck no. The leader of a one-party government stamps out dissent, uses the FCC as a threat to free airwaves, rehearses staged "interviews" with our soldiers in Iraq, and tries to fool citizens with programs like prescription drug plans that cost users more, and "No Child Left Behind" programs with LESS funding than before the program started.
3. Welfare of my fellow citizens? As a New Yorker who lost my first cousin in the World Trade Center I now watch a nearly equal number of young men and women, get slaughtered for "freedom" in a country thousands of miles away.

CNet may not be the right place for this commentary, but they asked, you whined, so here it is.

... I do it to protect my country, and not just to start trouble for unknown reasons on a false pretense.

1. Are my communications secure?
- NO, they are not secure if your friends are known terrorists.
2. Democratic principles? <
- <<insert liberal talking points here >>>
3. Welfare of my fellow citizens?
- I am sorry about your loss, but if your buddy Clinton would have taken out Bin Laden when he had the chance (twice), things would not have played out as they did.

We can go around and around, but it won't matter, since blaming Bush will solve everything, right??? I can't say all of Bush's decisions have been 100% corrrect, but he's doing a much better job than Kerry would have done... that I do know 100%.

We have lots of American friends. We like them and think they are great people. Then they elect politicians to represent them who betray the principles they believe. Who lie to them and wage war in foriegn countries for greed and what do our friends do about it? Nothing!
Oh yes Clinton lied about having sex and how many millions were spent trying to impeach him. But GW lies about WMD and al-Qaeda in Iraq and who says Boo? We will continue to like our American friends but despair that they can't elect a leader as great as they are.

Please, don't think that the government is the enemy. First of all, imagine what life would be like without the government protecting us. Terrorists would be everywhere, communicating without fear of being caught and prosecuted. Secondly, the government needs a warrant to do pretty much anything. Next on the list is the fact that if you aren't doing anything illegal, you have nothing to fear, and you probably won't be prosecuted even if you are doing something minorly illegal. Do you think the federal government really cares about your private emails? Do you think anyone cares? I think that you are overly paranoid, and pessimistic. We need to look at the government as a friend, and the world will be a better place.