Are American citizens safe &secure after 9/11 September?
355494
As safe and secure as Osama Bin Laden is. In reality Bush and Osama are playing a chess game and innocent people dying on both sides are either black pawns or white pawns.
1182435
No, the Department of Homeland Security does it part to keep the United States of America safe and secure.
918692
Bound's hubby here:\n\nYes, absolutely ... there hasn't been a week since 9/11/2001 that the terrorists have not attacked key targets throughout the U.S. ... and here we are defenseless against those scoundrels! How dare George leave us here without protection!\n\nHonestly, and realistically, we have been fortunate that there has not been any more bonafide terrorist attacks on our soil since 9/11. Perhaps that is because our troops have been overthere, taking the fight to them! Chances are very good they were hesitant to act here, because we were close to their loved-ones and their training facilities!\n\nI think the Dems have actually jumped onto another popularity bandwagon, and given the Islamic forces against us a "moral" victory and exposing us to greater threats!
304411
While our country falls apart and the american dream becomes more dissolved. Our forefathers would be ashamed of our current government. The great USA is becoming more like communist Russia and communist Germany. We are no longer free. Our freedoms are being infringed upon. The very thing our Government says its fighting, they are inflicting on the american people. There is no representation and Americans were not asked if we agreed with this spying. Power is corruptive and the checks and balances have not stopped corruptions. I am appauled that our government in fear of terrorism has been coerced to change the way we live forever. There has always been terrorism, look at Adolph Hitler, Mousilini, and more, but in all these times what made America different was democracy, we had a choice. We now have no choice in our freedom and big govrnment is making decisions not for the people but against the people. Are we truly free? I think not.
599
No, in time of war and when national security is threatened, it is lawful to take such action. 9/11 changed alot of things.\n\nBTW-Should John F. Kennedy have been impeached for spying on Martin Luther King?
176686
9/11 is a conspiracy and the perpretators are the one who is fighting fake terrorists. It was a well planned attack to create fear and to erode the freedom rights of the American people.\nCan't you see, now they are spying on your homes, peeking at your emails and tapping your phones to control you?\n\nBe aware but don't fear because justice will finally prevail and the truth will come out. The days of the Bushmen are numbered.
183379
The Patriot Act, giving up rights for freedom, afghanistan, the iraq war, iraqi people are free and in temporary chaos, homeland security dept made, you can probably think of others. 9/11 sent a shockwave throughout the world which will forever change it.
370171
Of course.\n I think it is a terrible idea to trade off civil rights for an ILLUSION of security... no one in this country is even a tiny bit safer than we were before the so called Patriot Act, just more fearful.\n\nBesides that, if we surrender our freedom in an effort to thwart terrorists, they win without even trying.
513380
The price of FREEDOM isn't FREE. We can fight them over there or here at home. And don't think for a minute it won't happen. We'll be living like the people in Israel, getting killed at the grocery stores and on the buses etc. If you think that those terrorist are done with us your completely wrong. they hate us and would cut your head off in a minute. They hate our way of life and they hate us!\n   We have been attacked several times before 911. thank GOD we have a President who knows the score and Thank GOD for our military!
1116053
it will affect our society by representing triumph. It will be a symbol, sign, and message to the citizens of this country and the entire world that the U.S. is rebuilding from a horrific event, 9/11. Definitely good thing.
387877
They already have.  From the Carter administration through the Clinton administration there were terrorist attacks on U.S. soil every 18-24 months.  Since 9/11 there have been none.  I would say that they are doing just fine.
1164417
I agree 100%.\n\nI was living just outside Philadelphia when 9/11 happened.  I had several friends and family members in NYC - one of which we lost (a 30 year old brother in law who was giving a speech on the top floor of the building at a conference).  It was only a stroke of luck that kept my own husband out of NYC that day.\n\nAt that point we got a glimpse of the kind of horror that the civilians in the middle east have been suffering - explosions in restaurants, schools, hospitals, temples - it is mind numbing.  I caught my heart in my throat for weeks after 9/11 everytime I heard an airplane or helicopter over head (we lived near and Air Force base).  I have little children of my own - and my heart goes out to the families that must live through the violence.\n\nWhat is so upsetting to me about the war in Iraq is that it feels unnecessary to me.  We stormed into Afghanistan, hot on the heels of those who had done us wrong and liberated a community that had been terrorized by the Taliban for years.  We had reacted to tragedy decisively and with class - in myopinion - helping others along the way.  It felt great to be American.\n\nThen this stuff with Iraq -  I mean, lots of people say that Saddam Hussein is a terrible man, and that maybe.  But we don't really have a right to bomb the crap out of another country (out of another group of people) just because their leader doesn't do things as we do, do we?  The war on Terror had become a horror.  I watched, dumbfounded, as we bombed the living daylight out of that civilization.\n\nIf we feel that we have a right to bomb other because we disagree with their leaders, then we are being repaid in kind when they bomb us because they don't agree with ours.
50956
Unfortunatly/fortunatly the US has been so sheltered geographicly and culturaly that the bulk of the population doesn't understand the situation we're in. Consider the level of terrorist activity that exists in Europe, Asia, or Israel. Bombings in England, 3 weeks of COORDINATED rioting in France, rioting in Denmark by muslim extremists too, multiple bombings in Idonesia, Abu sayaf group in phillipines regularly beheading christian missionaries, etc etc etc. Americans being 'sheltered' haven't found the balance between national safety and freedom.\n\n"domestic" spying in this case was on groups and individuals specificly communicating with or tied to acknowledged terrorits organizations. In addition there was a documented authorization process in order to get the 'taps' in the first place. The controvesy is entirely domestic politics. The same people who are outraged by the "spying" will be the same people outraged that the gov't didn't do enough WHEN the next attack occurs on US soil.\n\nTheres a cliche saying "don't confuse the argument with facts". It's all too true. The issue is only debatable when you think with your heart instead of your head. I guess 9/11 wasn't enough to wake them up.
1120639
I hesitated to answer this question as to the idiotic responses that it would draw. Fact of the matter is that Bush did very little to protect America on 9/11, the 9/11 commission report can back up my claims. On top of that he recently cut National Defense Spending in New York and LA, saying that there were no national monuments in New York. Which got me to thinking maybe we don't put the same value on Liberty as we used to.
835748
I think 9/11 will always be an infamous day for us Americans.  I wonder if the London bombings will always be remembered too?
687434
absolutely not! 9/11 should NOT be an excuse for invasion of privacy or any other civil liberties in any way!
966542
Benjamin Franklin, one of the smartest American to ever stand on this soil said: "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."  What holds true at the founding of this country holds today.  I think you should rethink your ideas with less emotion and fear of 911.  You have the courage enough to face countless attacks without giving up any of the Rights that were written for you in the Bill of Rights of your Constitution.  Once you give up these rights...the tyrants win.