Majority of Americans think government is a threat to rights
CNN released the results of a poll in which 56 percent of Americans believe that the ever expanding federal government is an immediate threat to the rights of ordinary citizens.
Well what I say to that is those 56 percent are correct if you look at human history. Throughout mankind countries have proven over and over that eventually national government does envelope everything in a nation, especially the rights of their citizens.
What about the 44 percent who disagree? In my opinion they are either in denial, they don’t understand history or they are federal employees.
The poll is also broken down by political affiliation with 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 70 percent of Republicans believing the federal government is actually a threat to rights and liberties.
Of course my curiosity kicks in at this point and I wonder, would the numbers have been reversed if this poll was taken in 2006? Would the Democrats say the growth of the government in the Bush era was a threat to citizen rights and vice versa? I wonder.
Speaking of the threat to the rights of the citizens, this past week our public servants in Washington easily voted to extend the Patriot Act (a law that totally tramples the 4th amendment and citizens right to privacy)and the President signed off on it. Republicans and Democrats.
Yea, I have to agree that the increases in size and scope of the federal government is indeed a threat to the rights of citizens.
