Civil Liberties Poll - Scary results

[Wickerman]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/

Are anti-terrorism efforts eroding civil rights?

Yes, security measures are eroding our liberties 29.0%

No, it's OK to sacrifice some liberty for security 61.3%

I agree with Justice Ginsberg that people should speak up 9.7%

Total Votes : 62

based on this article:

Justice Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy

By GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press Writer

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_GINSBURG?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday that people concerned about losing freedom to government anti-terrorism efforts should speak out.

The Supreme Court is taking up several terror-related cases this spring, including challenges to the government detention of terror suspects without legal rights.

[Wickerman]

1. update

I know these polls are meaningless, but I hate to see so many folks willing to give up Civil Liberties. SA is a military town, but I've known a lot of military with a pretty fine understanding of what those liberties really mean.

Are anti-terrorism efforts eroding civil rights?

Yes, security measures are eroding our liberties
36.7%

No, it's OK to sacrifice some liberty for security
53.3%

I agree with Justice Ginsberg that people should speak up
10.0%


Total Votes : 120

[GOPisEvil]

2. Apparently the people in my former hometown don't know their Franklin.

"Those who would exchange liberty for security deserve neither."

[dmr]

3. Yes, and they'd be the first ones crying when they lose them. n/t

[GOPisEvil]

4. Sorta like how they whine about Social Security, but...

...if Grandma's check is 30 seconds late, they're on the phone to their Congressman.

[Wickerman]

5. That is SO San Antonio!

I've got a picture of the grey-hairs trying to navigate Broadway in Alamo Heights with all the monster SUVs their children drive crowding them.

[GOPisEvil]

7. Their leader: Roddy Stinson!

His mantra: "If you got yours, you stole it. If I got mine, I earned it."

[Wickerman]

8. Do you remember when he was liberal?

Yeah, its all about Roddy (and is that a name for a grown man?) Paul Thompson was the conservative.

Then, Paul died. Roddy stepped immediately into Paul's ultra-conservative shoes. Prior to that Roddy was writing the "I want to thank those two kind strangers who changed my flat tire on 410 in the 100 degree heat Monday rush hour" column.

He had an overnight transformation when there was a hole that he could fill and his salary could sky rocket.

[GOPisEvil]

9. Exactly!

Roddy still writes those "nice" columns every now and then, last time I checked it was once a week. I moved from SA almost 4 years ago, and don't read the Excess much. Remember when we had the Excess and the Blight?

[Wickerman]

10. The Blight - RIP

Not a lotta paper, but at least there was a discernable difference between the two. Two papers, owned there for a bit, by the same publisher, hmmmm. SATX - the home of Clear Channel Communications. What a black mark on a near great "little" town.

[Fenris]

6. I think we need a new slogan

YOU MAKE THE FOUNDING FATHERS VOMIT.

Jesus, people in this country are so fucking stupid.

[sonias]

11. I'm with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on this one

Civil rights, use them or lose them.

Sonia


Justice Warns Against Civil Rights Apathy:
"On important issues, like the balance between liberty and security, if the public doesn't care, then the security side is going to overweigh the other," she said.

That would change, Ginsburg said, "if people come forward and say we are proud to live in the USA, a land that has been more free, and we want to keep it that way."