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Poll: Monitoring phone calls makes America Safer
By sage of monticello | August 12, 2007
Rasmussen Reports:
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters believe that allowing the government to intercept phone calls from terrorist suspects makes America safer.
Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans believe that allowing the government to intercept such calls makes the nation safer.
To speak in light of a recent post, polls as we should all know isn’t all that makes a policy right. There are many other things, such as philosophy, efficiency, and party strategy.
So, I pose this question: By monitoring phone calls, or by continuing to monitoring phone calls, are Republicans in Congress (past and present) knowingly sacrificing civil liberty for political gain and thus committing the very same “govening by the polls” crime that they so passionately and frequently convict of the Democrats?
Food for thought. You do the math.
Topics: conservativism, Pres. Bush, constitutional issues, political philosophy, civil liberties, civil liberty(s) |
August 13th, 2007 at 12:41 am
Not only is this “governing by the polls”, this is an abandonment of faith in limited government.
Nobody can argue that this, and other methods, offer security and protection in a time when the threat of terrorism is ever present. However, we must consider the costs, both philosophically and politically.
The Republican Party was formed around the common belief that limited government was the paramount ideal. In modern politics, most Americans expect this belief from Our Party, but these expectations are increasingly becoming unfounded. With our government growing to unprecedented size and scope, civil liberties being trampled, and pervasive surveillance with the reasoning of protection, Our Party has lost it’s way.