Do you agree that the government should have the right to now tap into telephone and cell phone calls with greater ease, video monitor pedestrians in public places, place fingerprints on identification and show it to authorities when asked, and have police with machine guns protecting you in public places?
Should the government allow for military tribunals, and for "sneek and peak" searches on homes without warrants?
1) What is the greater threat -- the terrorist actions of a small number of people, or the abuse of power by the state?
Here are two quotes for you to consider:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
"To those Americans who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists." John Ashcroft, Former Atty. General, 7 December 2001.
2) Which quotation better explains your point of view? Or is there another quotation that you could cite which expresses your view point?
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