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To: wildbill

I don't.

Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

What did Thomas Jefforson say about trading freedom for security....


10 posted on 12/19/2005 10:03:01 AM PST by The_Republican
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To: The_Republican

"What did Thomas Jefforson say about trading freedom for security...."

That doesn't matter anymore because we're at WAR. :)


48 posted on 12/19/2005 10:41:13 AM PST by dljordan
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To: The_Republican
What did Thomas Jefforson say about trading freedom for security....

By your way of thinking, those 8 German submarine (sabateur) spys who were captured on US soil during WWII should have been given bail, Mirandized, and let go on their merry way so as not to violate their rights.

Yes I know Miranda rights weren't initiated until the 60s, but what the hey, even Nazi's who are planning sabatage deserve their Constitutional rights.

/sarc

87 posted on 12/19/2005 11:49:34 AM PST by Edit35
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To: The_Republican

It's an academic argument that we lose our rights under the Constitution--if the Constitution no longer exists because the society has been destroyed by some form of WMD.

If we somehow captured Ben Laden with a telephone, it would be important to call/record every number on the speeddialer before his henchmen changed all the numbers.


98 posted on 12/19/2005 12:43:36 PM PST by wildbill
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To: The_Republican
What did Thomas Jefforson say about trading freedom for security....

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
106 posted on 12/19/2005 1:11:47 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: The_Republican

Thomas Jefferson didn't say it. Franklin did, but if he were around to day he'd take it back.

What you want is temporary liberty; live without concern today, in exchange for a life of Islamic terror later on.

Only a fool would make that deal.


144 posted on 12/21/2005 10:15:51 AM PST by zook
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