How much freedom are you willing to give up in order to stay "safe"?
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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
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u run away to maintain your FREEDOM!
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Relax pal. I come from the X-Soviet Union. You are not loosing any liberties. When it does become too "secure" people usually vote it out in this country. And that is why I prefer to live here, and not there.
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I agree with that, but freedom is the ultimate thing to fight for, because without that, u cant do anything.
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Are we Afraid Hell NO ! You people want more than what we're giving you and the price of freedom isn't cheap. OUr poor fathers worked hard to make this Country work for business men like myself, and We are not going to set back and watch you destroy what we have in order to make you any happier here. you start at the bottom and work your way up or you can all go back to where you all came from. It's that easy There will be hell to pay the day they open the gates and just allow you free passage into this country, because I'm not alone on this one !!!
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Many United State citizens are not putting up with the loss of freedoms.  Just witness the ongoing issue with telephone monitoring by the U.S. government and the response to this.  We want to feel safe yet at the same time want to be free to do what we will and say what we want.  As far as turning into a police state I still do not get stopped by law enforcement to check my papers.  I do not have to pass through checkpoints when driving to work.  I want to travel to another state I do not have to clear this decision with any form of legal authority.  We are far from a police state.
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I live in Indiana, U.S.A.\n\nTo me, freedom is being able to step outside of my home and know radical groups and fantasist are not going to blow me up or gun me down. Sure, we have gangs but when you look at the world news, America is the safest place to live.\n\nI thrive in Democracy. I live to vote and I adore our process.\n\nSure, there are rotten apples that spoil things but who cares.....I don't have to hide my face as a woman, worry about getting my privates mutilated, sell myself for a bowl of food, dig in a dumpster for a scrap of clothing. I have the right to own a business, run it with full benifits as a man. I can vote or not vote and not fear getting shot at for either. I can have an abortion or not, depending on what is right for ME. \n\nI can speak about anything I wish to speak about and have no fear of retribution with anything but words.\n\nFreedom is just that. Being free of restraints imposed by others. My only restraints are place by me and me alone.
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Thomas Jefferson -\n" Those who would give up Freedom for Safety\nDeserve neither Safety or Freedom."\n\n\nseems clear enough
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They wouldn't make you surrender it physically, but they would ban you from driving for a certain time, and if you are caught doing it anyway, there would be bigger rouble pronto. Hope that demystifies it for you?
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No one can not feel safe . It is only the matter when is the turn of your countay or state. It is the high time now that our leaders should bury the differences and join together to wage a war against war, which seems a distance possibilities giving their never ending greed. \nWe the comman citizen should come up now to make a force of our own which should be above the boundary of countaries. Can we give ourself to these shrewd politicians insatiable thirst.NO WE CAN NOT. If we want the coming generations to live in safety we must take this responsibility.\nMerely by expressing our views we can not change the prevailing situation can never attain  the safety.
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Absolutely, knowing that you have someone who is totally dependent on you is a huge responsiblity. But one I would not trade for the world. I don't know if it makes you a braver person but it certainly makes you stronger. I get scared about things but I have to go forward with whatever I'm doing because I know it's for the best for everyone. It's a wonderful thing being a parent, it's also a lot of hard work.
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if you are safe and secure, no
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There is no such thing as "too much freedom." The ultimate freedom would be anarchy (where there is no law and we all kill and get killed without being accountable). \n\nNow the more practical answer.  No, we don't.  The fact is that the media only reports one side of the story.  We all have our opinions and others around us are influenced by our opinion.  Our poor have barely any means to become rich.  We are ignorant, and we are too stupid too know we are ignorant.  We have a ban on gay rights. Thus no, we don't have too much freedom.  We don't have freedom enough to be truly free from all bias, all dogma and all insanity.\n\nYet, we are as free as any other "nation" ever has been.  We are the innovators.  We are the geo-political leaders. We have the American Dream.  We have people willing to die to defend FREEDOM.  We have the leaders in all walks of life.  We are, the great, Americans.  We are as fr, if not more, as any civilization should be and and we are damn proud of it.\n\nGod bless America.
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This question can have many different opinions from different people. Freedom isn't the ability to do what ever one wanted to do, if it was, just picture a world that has no law...it would be total chaos...whoever didn't like you because of what you said could shoot you with no consequences taken, and I turn that would be living in fear and living in fear is NOT freedom. Even though we have the law we can still have freedom...for example....if the speed limit says 25, 45, 55 or 70 mph, as long as I didn't break the speed limit I have the freedom to drive where ever I wanted to, but if I break the speed limit and get stopped...then I no longer have the freedom to keep driving. Freedom is abiding by the rules and laws of life. Laws are not to prohibit people from doing things, but to protect people from harm. I don't know if your religious or not, but the 10 commandments were to protect us so to speak, not to hurt us. So, why get rid of something that doesn't hurt us. Like anything in life...there's a price for freedom....and it's not cheap!!! The price of the Freedom that has been given to me has caused many deaths of the solders that died in war so I can be Free...even free to the point of burning the flag (which I wouldn't do) that gave me the freedom that I have.
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not necessarily.  \n\nHowever sometimes freedoms must be sacrificed to achieve safety.
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When your have the house to yourself so nobody can catch you, I mean interrupt (LOL! just kidding).\n\nSafe? It depends on what want to be safe from.  Diseases, there are many and not only strangers carry them, people you know may have them.  "Protection" (and I don't mean guns) works but not always, there's always a chance something could go wrong.\n\nSafe from just being used? Heartbreak?  As far as that's concerned the only way to be safe is to really get to know someone before you fall head over heels (easier said than done).\n\nIn my opinion what's most important is to be ready mentally, not just physically.  It's a feeling of comfort only you can give yourself.  Nobody should talk you into it or pressure you.  You will know when the time is right.  I hope I was helpful!
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DONT GIVE UP... KEP THE FAITH AND TRUST GOING REAL STRONG... ITLL SEE U THROUGH TROUBLE TO SAFETY