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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
What a joke. We have people getting killed in other countries to defend our freedoms. We have people living on the streets in our own cities. Kids without homes as well. And here you are complaining about sacrifice of personal freedoms.
Get over it.
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Our soldiers fighting for Canada -- and if not all, most of the Western World -- all signed up for that line of work when they volunteered or enlisted. They volunteered to go to hell so that people like me wouldn't have to. And for that, they have my utmost respect.
Liberty and Security are as bipolar as Conservative and Liberal. Societies that place a high value on personal freedoms are the easiest to attack from within. That is a fact. But given the realistic probability of actual danger coming to myself in this city, this country, I'm okay with that. If I truly was afraid to leave my apartment for fear that someone my rob me, I would buy a gun.
We are very lucky in this side of the world to have never endured real war in our time. Never in the modern age have enemy nations had troops set foot on our soil. We have never been bombed, forced to evacuate, or had to dig ourselves out of collapsed buildings. This leaves most of our citizens with a jaded sense of reality, and only when reality wickedly slaps us across the face (9/11) does it really hit home how unfamiliar we are with war.
I recognize that if there was absolutely no security in place for fear that it would hinder our personal freedoms, we would surely have been devastated by terrorism by now. I understand that there is a reason for security checkpoints in airports and borders. What I cannot abide is the blind willingness to give up any right or liberty without first asking why, and carefully considering the worth vs the detriment in allowing any liberty to be taken away.
During the course of this thread it has come to my attention that this Supreme Court ruling has in fact not changed anything, but maintained the status quo. This was news to me. I was unaware that in Canada we do not have the right to have an attorney present while being interrogated by Law Enforcement. I am aware now, and I am also sickened by it. But better on me for knowing now. The average citizen truly has no idea what their rights are when being investigated by law enforcement. Irresponsible.
If ever my government were to come to me and ask me to give up any freedom, no matter how frivolous, my first question would always be 'why?' There had better be an answer, and it had better be a good one. And 'For security reasons' on its own is not good enough.