What have we got to lose?
I found the following Cheny quotation via Davenetics:
“Either we’re serious about fighting the war on terror or we’re not. Either we believe that there are individuals out there doing everything they can to try to launch more attacks, to try to get ever deadlier weapons to use against, or we don’t. The President and I believe very deeply that there’s a hell of a threat, that it’s there for anybody who wants to look at it. And that our obligation and responsibility given our job is to do everything in our power to defeat the terrorists. And that’s exactly what we’re do.”
I might be mistaken, but I believe that what we should be fighting for is freedom, liberty, equality and justice. Today, some would argue that we should be fighting for the right to privacy and security. I understand that there are people who are trying to make it more difficult for us to achieve our goals of freedom, liberty, equality and justice but at what point do the methods by which we attempt to thwart them end up being counter-productive? Is it when we ourselves are attacking our own privacy and security? What’s worse: getting randomly blown up by a terrorist or arbitrarily imprisoned and tortured by your own government?