Yes, indygirl, Bush has earned lots of critics after 9/11, however, there are lots of people who have started liking him the way he took initiative handling terrorism. America before 9/11 was whole different country. I have seen people's attitude being changed after that. I personally think americans are very open minding and accept all culture easily. This country is based on diversity and due to their acceptance some evil people have taken advantage of their liberal policy, which is not accepted according to Bush.
Now I do give credit to Bush that since 9/11 there have not been terrorist atack on US. They may have not planned one, or Bush has increased security level to an extend that its hard for them to plan one. However, giving rights to officers to tape people's phone, look into their personal life is not somethign I would support. Trust me it is hard to go through those security check and see some old people going through it without any reason.
I was travelling with my then 9 month old kid. My daughter was sleeping in stroller they asked me to wake her up take off her shoes, her jacket, my shoes, my belt, my jacket and then walk through the security. Ok my daughter obviously was fussy with all this disturbance, then after 1 security level we came accross second security level where they asked me to open my diaper bag.. and then literally took off everything and i was so annoyed with crying baby, and tons of things to put back in bag ...shoes, jacket to put on.... etc etc. I also support the security but this was obnoxious. You see people with infants or 2 kids being checked and harrassed not only once checked thrice for same flight was something really hard. And as I said that not all officers are good enough or cooperative, some are just rac*** or may try to harrasse someone out of personal enmity. I know before 9/11 you were able to say good-bye to ur friend right till flight door. Very minimal security and you can go to receive someone till gate of the flight. It was awesome. Now, with 9/11 security are tighter and its not same anymore. Terrorist have really broken trust of these americans and which is really not good. I understand that security is good, but once they scan you they should be able to figure out who should be checked and who not. targeting certain group of people, is not fair.
If administration thinks that their system is good enough why not get an official warrant and then start spying on someone. Rather than wasting their money and troop building someone else's government they should probably spy and try to find out those networks. It's just my views that you can't spy on any citizen as you please without any official warrant. American law usually requires a secret court, known as Foreign Intelliegence Surveillance Court to give permission before intelligence officers can conduct surveillance on US soil and according to this new act by Bush adminsitration is both illigal and unconstitutional. I don't think any president should claim powers at the expense of civil liberties and looks like president wants to be above law which to me is not acceptable. Edited by bgdesai - 18 years ago
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