Why I'm Not Voting for Bush Part 3
Homeland Security.
First of all I'm going to admit something. Yes, I'm a Conspiracy Theorist. Now before I hear any of the bullshit that I've heard hundreds of times before, I'm a Conspiracy Theorist... prepare yourself... with sources. Yes, sources. I'm not saying the American government is out to get me, but if they were... they have several laws on the books over the several decades to easily get me by my short hairs. Yes, my friends, laws and it's only gotten worse. With the advent of Homeland Security and the gross paranoia (Yes, gross paranoia even for me) that it has infested this culture with, we have become more of a mockery of a free society than the color-coded Terror Warnings have been. To give an idea of why I think our freedoms are being violated by Homeland Security and (don't snicker) the Patriot Act:
Patriot Act
1) The Actual Patriot Act
2) A Review of the Patriot Act... much shorter and completely factual, but slanted viewpoint.
Homeland Security Act
1) The Actual Law
2) A review, which is fairly factual, but again slanted.
I don't feel comfortable with this, do you? I could walk away from this and just let you read those links and my point will have been made. Our Constitution is based on freedoms. It says, "Yes, you can do this," but it never says, "No, you can't do this". This document is probably the most positive thing anyone has ever put out. It ensures we have the right to vote, to speaking our thoughts and worshipping whatever invisible being we want too, among other freedoms. Now we have not just one Act, but two, telling us we can't or we shouldn't or if we were, we'd be watched. No, I'm not happy with that.
Oh and by the way, a patriot in this country is historically a fighter who fights for one thing: Freedom from Tyranny.
"To secure these [inalienable] rights [to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776
President-Elect George W. Bush, you can not and will not take my freedom to live.
First of all I'm going to admit something. Yes, I'm a Conspiracy Theorist. Now before I hear any of the bullshit that I've heard hundreds of times before, I'm a Conspiracy Theorist... prepare yourself... with sources. Yes, sources. I'm not saying the American government is out to get me, but if they were... they have several laws on the books over the several decades to easily get me by my short hairs. Yes, my friends, laws and it's only gotten worse. With the advent of Homeland Security and the gross paranoia (Yes, gross paranoia even for me) that it has infested this culture with, we have become more of a mockery of a free society than the color-coded Terror Warnings have been. To give an idea of why I think our freedoms are being violated by Homeland Security and (don't snicker) the Patriot Act:
Patriot Act
1) The Actual Patriot Act
2) A Review of the Patriot Act... much shorter and completely factual, but slanted viewpoint.
Homeland Security Act
1) The Actual Law
2) A review, which is fairly factual, but again slanted.
I don't feel comfortable with this, do you? I could walk away from this and just let you read those links and my point will have been made. Our Constitution is based on freedoms. It says, "Yes, you can do this," but it never says, "No, you can't do this". This document is probably the most positive thing anyone has ever put out. It ensures we have the right to vote, to speaking our thoughts and worshipping whatever invisible being we want too, among other freedoms. Now we have not just one Act, but two, telling us we can't or we shouldn't or if we were, we'd be watched. No, I'm not happy with that.
Oh and by the way, a patriot in this country is historically a fighter who fights for one thing: Freedom from Tyranny.
"To secure these [inalienable] rights [to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776
President-Elect George W. Bush, you can not and will not take my freedom to live.