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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden: The Biggest Revelations Are Yet to Come [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)We do not live in a different world. The world has pretty much remained the same as it always was. There have ALWAYS been what we call 'terrorists', in every country in the world, since there were countries.
If that is what you are talking about. And if it is, then we are creating more 'invisible enemies' each time we kill an innocent child, or a mother or sister, father. Do you really think that going around the world, CLAIMING we are killing 'terrorists' and using the intentionally dehumanizing epithet, which it is imo, 'collateral damage' for all the innocents we kill is going to make us safer?
Apparently it hasn't. Nor has all the spying, and this has now been confirmed, caught ONE actual terrorist. So how is giving up all of our rights, 'making us safer from invisible enemies'?
And what good is a Constitution, a system of laws, if we rip it up the minute we get scared? Why have it at all?
Why not just hide in our basements and let the Government keep spying and killing and maybe ONE day we'll have no more enemies?
What a scary world they created.
'Defend and protect the Constitution of the US against all enemies, both foreign and domestic'
When did we decide it wasn't worth defending and protecting, that the minute we feel threatened we should just rip it up?
How sad.