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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
While that's fun to say, and I certainly don't disagree, I'm curious as to your reasoning. Exactly how has this administration, corrupt and as inept as it is, done more damage to this country than any group of terrorists could hope to?
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Sudden, violent attacks like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are shocking and get our attention like nothing else can and we spring into action to retaliate or respond.
Shesus and I were driving along a state highway when we came across this gorgeous river canyon. It was nowhere near the scale of the Grand Canyon - in fact one might even doubt its being called a canyon - but it was secluded and quaint and quite beautiful. We walked along the rocks and tossed some stones into the river below, which was about 100 ft below us. After a bit, my daughter commented, "I bet millions of years ago, this is just what the Grand Canyon looked like."
The current administration is slowly, slowly eroding away many of the ideals that we held firm to, turning our nation into a near police-state all under the guise of security. As a nation, we have allowed it to happen because we don't want another attack.
When all is said and done, we really aren't all that free anymore. We can't travel freely within our own borders without being subjected to random searches and seizures by agents of the government. Sure, some will argue that we don't have to fly, we could easily drive, but that's precisely my point. In a free country, why would we be subjected to this at any time by anyone? Why does certain forms of travel demand that we subject ourselves to warrantless searches?
We can't really say what we want. Sure, people will say that the government can't stop us, but private companies have every right to, but that's my point. In a free country, do we really allow corporations to dictate what we're allowed to say? People are fired from jobs for saying the "wrong" things. And we allow it because we say it's a private company doing the censoring, and we say that's perfectly all right.
We give up our freedoms one at a time, and we do it willingly and even defend the entities stifling those freedoms. This baffles me to no end: that we'll defend those entities and their efforts to stifle us.
This slow erosion, over the course of the past 6 or 7 years, has resulted in what many believe is more damage than what the terrorists caused.