The police state USA
The announcement of the last week, that the terrorist threat warning a level has been lifted in parts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington, district of Columbia, has led to drama and unprecedented restrictions in movements of citizens. The Americans, wishing to visit the American Capitol should to pass, for example, through some check items and to obey to police survey of their cars and people.
Many Americans support new security measures because they approve that felt more safe when the governmental terror of problems sets ready and fills streets with the militarized police. As one tourist has taken interview, this week has told, " It forces me to feel convenient that the nobility, that all is checked. " It is ridiculous, that the tourists coming to Washington to celebrate freedom, to embodiment in the Declaration of Independence so aspire to throw those freedom without questions which set.Introduction of a visa mode is first of all a security measure. As shows an expert to receive the us passport to the foreigner hard enough. It is necessary to address in many instances, to give huge quantity of various information and eventually to fill the passport application.
Freedom is not certain by safety. Freedom is certain by ability of citizens to live without the governmental intervention. The government cannot create the world without risks, and thus we really would not wish to live in such invented place. Only the totalitarian society even would demand absolute safety as a worthy ideal because it will demand the full State control over lives of its citizens. It does not stop the government, including our own, from search of a lot of the control and intrusion into our lives. As one Member of the Congress has declared on press last week, " people who do not wish to be searched, should not arrive to the bases of the Capitol. " What insult! The Capitol belongs to the American people who pay for it, not on the Congress or police.
It should be marked, that the government rushes all over again to protect itself, devoting huge resources to make places as the Capitol bases the safe, while only outside of lie one of the most dangerous neighbourhood in the nation. What does the Congress by more worthy protection against terrorists than usual citizens? To understand the nature of our internal answer to September, 11th, 2001, attacks, we should understand the nature of the government. The government naturally extends, and any crises - either real or made - serve to justify more and more than the governmental authority above our lives. Bureaucrats used tragedy 9/11 as the justification to grasp the police powers searched within many decades, type of searches warrantless, the control of the Internet, and access over reports of bank. It should not be any surprise, that one central recommendation has recently let out message of 9/11 Commissions only: the greater government and is more than charges of the house and abroad.
Each new security measure represents other refusal there is no time brave American spirit. The more we change our lives, the more we take hold about terrorism, more terrorists have won.s commentator Lew Rockwell of the Ludwig von Institute of Agreements explains, terrorists have been actually lifted by our answer on 9/11: " They operate the country. They define our civil life. They form our private life. They solve, as public resources are lead. They can dictate, who reaches be the following president. It should be obvious, that the government does not object. At all. The governmental benefits, receiving ever there is more than reason for ever more money and authority. "
Each generation should resist to a temptation to believe, that it lives during the most dangerous time in the American history. Threat of Islamic terrorism is real, but it not the greatest danger, ever before which there is our nation. It should not reject threat of terrorism, and places it in prospect more likely. Those who aspires to strike the nation in madness of fear, have done much harm to the country which has sent British, struggled with two world wars, and has confused the Soviet empire. Freedom is lost through complacency and subject thinking. When we accept or even we welcome automobile check items, casual searches, compulsory identification cards, and the militarized police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born from the protest, revolution, and mistrust to the government. Subject societies neither do not support, nor freedom long time deserve.
On August, 10th 2004.
A member of House of Representatives Ronom the Floor.
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