Anti-Terrorism: Effectiveness vs. Loss of Civil Liberties

[steve2470]

Question of the day: How do we fight terrorism without curtailing civil liberties ? Any takers ?

[indepat]

1. Use our vast intelligence and counterintelligence assets already

in place more effectively and use these assest to monitor/target real/potential terrorists rather than using an inordinate amount of these assets to stiffle patriotic dissent/political opposition. Sufficient assets were seemingly in place to thwart/mostly thwart 9-11, but it seems they were not utilized very effectively.

[baldguy]

2. Benjamin Franklin

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Edmund Burke - "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

William Pitt - "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."