[Joe 6-pack]

Despite having been explicitly warned against doing so, Americans have been imperceptibly and incrementally trading their liberty for the spectre of security for long before Obama came on the scene. He and his ilk are now simply in a position to ride the wave that started rolling toward us decades ago...

[RitaOK]

” Americans have been imperceptibly and incrementally trading their liberty for the spectre of security for long before Obama came on the scene. “ =========================

You said it. Simply. In spades.

Now if we could take the battle where it will make a difference. Into our public schools, university and academia, the sedition breeding grounds all. The future is more of the same until we show up on the field of education, indoctrination, revisionism, redaction.

[Jim W N]

Yup. Government continues baiting with the Faustian & Satanic bargain of trading freedom for security and ignorant, gullible people keep taking the bait not realizing they'll end up with neither.

It's the same effect as the trade-off of liberty for "equality." Putting equality before freedom leave you with little of both, whereas putting freedom before equality leaves you a great deal of both.