Fighting Terrorism and Civil Liberties
Terrorism is a constant threat, despite the joke George W. Bush has made out of fighting the terrorism. You don’t fight terrorism with an all out war, you fight it with police work. But as the government increases its need and capability to intrude into everyday people’s lives to glean information that will help them fight the utterly stupid and incomprehensible terrorists, who basically have absolutely no justification for their actions, the citizens also need their civil liberties to be protected. The Patriot Act should be considered an infringement onto constitutionally protected privacy rights. Sometimes, lives may be lost if the ability to do police work is diminished by the protection of civil liberties. That is a hard and bitter pill to swallow, but it is one we must take to remain a true democracy. Otherwise, we are not any better than the terrorists. We have to uphold ideals of democracy and freedom in all circumstances, and especially in those circumstances when it is easiest not to.
To fight terrorism, I also think that we need a better government agency. The NSA, CIA, and FBI split up their work, sometimes not communicating and working at odds with one another, so what we need to have is a centralizing agency dedicated to fighting terrorism and terrorism only, not concerned about interstate kidnappings and other problems. If we concentrated our resources into like the CTA, the Counter-Terrorism Agency, we would be much better off.
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