by Larry Wayne

Created on: February 25, 2009   Last Updated: January 13, 2011

No. In a free country, citizens civil rights include their right to be a part of national security. Disarming the citizens of a country, is diminishing national security. An armed group of outlaws or an army from foreign soil, they often are the same, could possibly march into a country and do as they please with an unarmed society.

What are people supposed to do in such a situation, dial 911 and wait for the local police to come and write up a police report after an army came through and robbed, raped, and killed as they pleased? Ask yourself, how safe were the Jews and many others in Germany in 1940, after they had been disarmed? Were they not supposedly disarmed in the name of let's keep violence down and protect everyone?

However, civil rights for real enemies of a country, do not come first. Government surveillance done properly can certainly help maintain peace and protection for all. Government surveillance should not be politically motivated or based upon hushing free speech.

There is not a day that goes by without some plotting to conquer others and take their possessions. Outlaws in a government may want security for themselves. Those, in government that want to put half its citizens in concentration camps, are worrying about their own lives, not
the lives of the people.

National security can be threatened, when civil rights are taken away for the political gain of a group. As has been said, when a government has the power to provide everyone, every thing they need for survival, they also have the power to take away everything you have. As history has proved, some that want to dominate the citizens of a country, can become barbaric. Those that want to ignore your individual rights may be wanting to enslave you. When pirates, whether they're employed by the government or not, start acting like pirates, they may be pirates, enemies of the people. (We do not have a guarantee that all elected officials have our interest at heart).

The first thing a robber wants, when getting ready to rob someone, is to be assured their own safety is maintained. If a government disarms its citizens, it can be party time for the robbers. Naturally, a professional armed robber is not going to voluntarily turn in his tool of trade, because a politician asked him nice.

National security for this country is a joint venture and has been since its beginning. The government and the people have preserved this country for over 200 years. People have been slaughtered by the millions at times, as history reveals. The mass murders in Russia, the mass
murders in Iraq under Hussein, and of course the mass murders in Germany under Hitler, are examples of what can happen when an overbearing ruler wants to deprive its citizens of the right to protect themselves.

Without civil rights, the people are prisoners of the slave drivers. Without civil rights, who cares about national security? Without civil rights, we are already captured. Without civil rights, the rich have almost absolute control over us. Without civil rights, we don't have a country to fight
for.

As a country, the government and the people need to work in harmony. National security, for the most part, has been maintained for over 200 years in the USA. Without the freedoms, such as those granted by the Bill of Rights, you would only have rights granted to you by your slave
masters. Without individual civil rights, national security has almost no meaning at all to the people.

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