Civil Liberties and Security

摘要: Determining the proper balance between citizens’ rights, civil liberties, and concerns for security is a particularly vexing problem democratic societies. It has long been understood that liberties are neither absolute nor unequivocal there normally tension support values desire to live in safety security. Citizens’ rights frequently collide with of others governments’ ability provide its citizens. Ironically, citizens societies have always had sacrifice measure freedom be free secure. As it turns out, speech one person, such as racist, sexist, or homophobic expressions though constitutionally protected, often translates into form harassment intimidation another person. While protection against self-incrimination habeas corpus can potentially guilty, protections potential heighten threat anxiety society. Still, privacy from unwarranted searches seizures may cover criminal activity people seeking do harm others. Thus, uncomfortable decision involved tradeoffs does not just arise during crisis events, but instead individual political authorities faced tradeoff decisions many different situations.