[alnick]

Everybody's forgotten Benjamin Franklin I guess.

I'm as free as I've always been. It's a lie that we're sacrificing our freedom for protection.

I'll tell you how we'll sacrifice our freedom: by allowing the terrorists to win. You do understand that their goal is literally the destruction of Western civilization, don't you?

I insist that my government protect my freedom by watching the terrorists so they can be more effective in their fight against them.

[antiRepublicrat]

I'll tell you how we'll sacrifice our freedom: by allowing the terrorists to win.

The terrorists can win simply by making us destroy ourselves out of fear.

I insist that my government protect my freedom

I insist that my government protect my freedom from itself. Unfortunately, that is sort of the fox guarding the hen house.

[noncommie]

I'm as free as I've always been.

YOU BLIND FOOL! How can you possibly think you're "free" when the NSA has access to your phone number?

Next thing you know, some government agency will have information that could be used to compile a list of all Presbyterians in America. How is this different from the Nazi Holocaust?