Do you care what the government does as long as it keeps you safe?
552582
Do I care? Absolutely. Do I think the government could put me in more danger if they track and file a record of my phone calls, banking, credit card purchases, food purchases, library book withdrawals, internet searches, highway easy pass info, and medication information? They will place me in a lot more danger and not even realize it.
928164
Me? Absolutely none.\n\nThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin\n\nOne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)\n\nIf you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)\n\nGovernment is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington\n\nThe true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)\n\nThe evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay (1872)\n\nThe best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone. – Thomas Rudmose-Brown\n\nI should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. – Alexis De Toqueville\n\nThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken
128718
No. The laws protect them.
564729
no. the problem is that all this "enforcement" costs money and time and we seem to want these things but then we get pissed when the govt tries to enforce them. Big govt is not good. We need to keep our selves safe. keep ourselves reponsible, and dammit, keep ourselves from dying from hurricanes ALL BY OURSELVES!
244736
definitely no. i believe that politicians have every right to pass and execute a law that protects the interests of their people for their people only, even in a very authoritarian way. it is one way of being nationalistic.\nin an emergency in an airplane, who are you going to put an oxygen mask on first: yourself or your child? in this case, who do you serve first... citizens of your country or foreigners?
820381
The government is (or was) established to protect the rights of the people, not to protect the people. Government is not a scam, even though most of it is a joke. I believe that our country could use a better government, not just locally, but nationally. We as a Nation and a state deserve a better government than we currently have. The government is trying to protect our rights, but we also have private domain (this includes areas of individual life that are of no business to the govt.) We have many freedoms, they just want to protect those rights.
1090407
Government knows best whats good FOR GOVERNMENT, namely keeping us "teaming masses" in check.  Since government not gonna voluntarily give up its power, YOU must choose your areas of freedom. The man can't be everywhere, all the time.
901339
of course. we want to be secured that we won't be hurt. no one wants to get hurt anyway,
1163854
Who cares what the government cares about-the people don't want Illegal here and they are suppose to represent them.
763597
Im not worried about anything.\ntake care
627550
i'd do whatever it takes to save my friends.  In my eyes, the government laws are a bunch of crap.  i live by my own moral laws, which differ from the government.
930236
Spied upon? The US must maintain a due diligence against all enemies foreign and domestic. We thus must allow law enforcement certain privileges to protect all of us. If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.
1011228
well if it doesn't pertain to you then why do you care?
755457
nope. Are you ready to prevent the criminals who are trying to take over the country>
557979
Why would you look to the government to GIVE you anythng?
148949
If the government fails to do the job of protecting the body politic then according to Jefferson we have the right and the responsibility to do something about it.\n\nWe are Americans, one of THE halmarks of Americans is that we are self-relient, we don't depend on government.  It is no different than a neighborhood watch looking out for your neighbors, when they spot criminals they call the police.
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None we keep all our oil just in case.