Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties What has happened to the U.S. is a confusion of terms. Liberty has been used to supplant freedom. The terrorists' acts were facilitated by the efforts of liberty groups. People don’t want to have all those protective measures to get on an airplane. If checks are removed then it makes it easy for terrorists to be able to get on the planes. Our privacy is being invaded. So, the government backed …

…quarantine people exposed to infectious pathogens and force them to be vaccinated, draft doctors to treat them, and order police to keep people from leaving areas that have been contaminated. The laws, if adopted, create a police state that would cause widespread panic, and in a smallpox outbreak these laws would minimize exposure and casualties. In the present atmosphere of war, many are calling for measures that will further restrict civil liberties and human rights.