Please provide an example of our gubmint giving up power it has accrued. The rights (especially our rights to privacy in our homes), will never be given back since the WOT will never be over!
And I reject totally the concept that in order to fight the WOT effectively, we have to give up any rights!
There is no off-switch in the Constitution.
You actually have already given up your freedoms. I was arrested in my driveway in front of my teenagers. The Sherrif followed me to my home after I supposedly ran a red light. After showing him my drivers license and him returning it, he proceeded to lecture me on something I had not done. After the lecture turned into an argument, he asked again for my license.
Now mind you, he had already ascertained my identity and where I lived...this was now turning into harrassment. I turned toward my purse to retrieve my driver's license, when he lunged at me, wrestled me to the ground, cuffed me and placed me in his squad car. He said he was arresting me for resisting arrest!! He never read me my rights...just proceeded to lecture me. When he was done, he let me go.
Now mind you, I am a 130 lb, 48 year old grandmother, mother of 5 who has never had a speeding ticket...never been ticketed or arrested of anything (I was warned once for speeding.) I did report him, although nothing came of it. I probably could have pursued legal action (since all of my neighbors were witnesses), but the law agencies of our communitites have much better things to do with their time, as do I.
I'm telling you this story to prove a point....if they WANT you, they will get you, and really there is nothing you can do about it!
Now, that brings me to the interment camps of World War II. The Japanese-Americans suffered a great deal, but it was as much for their safety as ours. Of course that act was rescinded as soon as was reasonable.
Perhaps, if we all profile terrorist on our own, threated them ourselves, like the citizens did to the Japanese in World War II, Gitmo would actually be seen as a "safe haven" for these terrorist. But then again....THAT is against the Constitution now isn't it.