&gt;And, once again, I would much rather cede my rights and freedoms to a government that creates a safe, clean, and tolerant environment, where I, and my family can live in safety, than a government which, while protecting my rights&#x2F;freedoms, created an environment that was unsafe, dirty, and intolerant, and in which I and my family were not safe to walk around in.<p>That&#x27;s like saying, &quot;I&#x27;d rather stab myself in the eye with a pen then a pencil&quot;.  My point is that nobody who values their dignity and freedom ever cedes their rights to any government, for any reason.<p>&gt;About the only place I would suggest they perhaps are behind in terms of what I would consider important modern civil liberties are their attitudes towards LGBT issues<p>If you don&#x27;t see a civil liberties issue with the government putting censors on you, your vehicle, and every street corner to monitor everything you do, everywhere you go, when you sleep, when you eat, and when you take a shit, and to regulate your personal behavior in each of these matters, as they claim it relates &quot;to the public good&quot; we have a very different definition of &quot;civil liberties&quot;.<p>“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams