Out of Pod Experience

Here on an irrelevant gaming forum is a post that no one will bother paying attention to. But here it is anyway. People are being ordered to evacuate their homes and submit to a involuntary search in mass.


This is a very very bad thing.



When the government suspends constitutional civil liberties, even in a time of crisis, it is still bad, mkay? A warrantless search on a grand scale is very bad, made only more so by the media not even questioning whether or not an army of heavily armed police has such an authority. So we now live in a nation where homeland security can suspend constitutional government for multiple counties in a time of crisis, and where the media is so diluted that no one has the balls to ask whether or not this is a gross violation of law.


It's like something a man in a black suit said to Mulder once on the X-files. Except in that movie the fictional character was warning about FEMA and aliens. Prophetic it seems, that now we have homeland security and "illegal aliens" instead. I need to find another planet to move to. This one has completely gone to ****.

Turn on your TV genius.

Sarcasm is not needed. All he asked for was a simple link as an example of what youre talking about.
Without a link to a relevant source, for all some people on this forum know you are conspiracy mongering.

Well that's good, but I still don't have a tv in my cubicle yet no matter how much I ask for one.

This is current on CNN.com

This is current on FOXnews.com.

This is current on MSNBC.com

I hope this helps.

I'm one of the people who was helping. There were no "illegal search and seizures" going on. Hell, I know of one cop who openly told someone with heroine in plain sight, "Yeah, next time hide that ****."

Houses are being searched. If you're not okay with that, fine. But this bastard has murdered four people, and with more explosives on him, he could murder more. Shut the **** up.

You can have Civil Liberties or Security
Choose 1.

They are primarily mutually exclusive, to obtain security you need to sacrifice aspects of liberty .. the more security you want the more freedom you have to lose to gain it.

The reason is simple human nature.
There is always someone, somewhere, that will view your Civil Liberties as a weakness to be exploited.

No. The search so far has yielded nothing. It has done nothing. It did not identify them. It did not tell people where they were. It did not allow authorities to catch up with them. All it is doing is authorizing systematic house raids of private property.


Opinions like yours are very dangerous. They only serve to rationalize the slow weathering of civil liberties intended to protect us from prosecution and injustices by those in power.

Fixed.

Nothing can make you completely secure simple as that, what is left is the life you enjoy while you are here.

Again what I said earlier comes to mind.


People want to blow something up they will, the only way to stop that is build a society where people don't want to do that outside of the 1 in a million crazy person.

Death by terrorism is a lot less likely than death by lightning, pretty good job if you ask me.

Freedom and Liberty are mutually exclusive. You have to find a balance between the two because going too far to either side costs you both.