Every time the government tells us they are passing a law to protect us, I shudder because I know that another one of our civil liberties will be taken away from us.
They wave the American flag in our faces and tell us that wiretapping is to protect us from terrorists and drug cartels. The Department of Homeland Security is to protect us from terrorists. The TSA (Transportation Security Administration), an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is also to protect us from terrorists. If we are so protected from terrorists, why don’t we feel protected? In fact, why aren’t we better protected?
Why is it that passengers have to go through invasive pat downs at airports and have their nail clippers confiscated as dangerous weapons, and yet many people have gotten away with carrying guns on planes at the same airports?
Who doesn’t remember the joys of getting on a plane for a quick weekend getaway or taking a trip for business or to be with loved ones? Nowadays, with all the measures the government has taken to protect us, traveling anywhere has become a nightmare.
Traveling used to be fun. Now people travel only when it’s absolutely necessary because they don’t want to endure the hardships that the government has imposed on us.
There have been so many violations of the First Amendment that someday we may lose the very freedoms we fought for when we gained our independence from England.
We always took for
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