Do you think that during wartime some freedoms should be taken away for the war effort to succeed?

Answer 1

That depends. In American history, freedom of expression is the most common one to go (or at least to be restricted), as we saw with the Schenck Decision in 1919, which allowed for wartime restrictions on the First Amendment. Some people might argue that freedom of speech affects a unified war effort, which is desperately needed for morale purposes as well as actually getting things done on the home front and abroad. That being said, many would argue that the very nature of a democracy maintains the right for the people to protest their government, because they are representatives of the people, and so if their constituents feel a war is not in their interest (such as with Vietnam) then they should have a right to say something. Freedoms is also a pretty broad term, and there have been large infringements on basic rights in the name of a "wartime effort" - i.e. Japanese internment camps during World War II. It's a complicated question that I don't personally think can be answered with a simple yes or no, but there are (in my opinion) some obvious things not to do.