” What was it they used to say? If we give up our freedoms, the terrorists will have won! Whether or not the terrorists have won, the bureaucrats have. And they’re a more profound existential threat to America than the terrorists will ever be. “
Tyranny comes, not with the blaze of gunfire, but with the quiet rustle of paperwork....
”What was it they used to say? If we give up our freedoms, the terrorists will have won!”
Clearly the terrorists won. The “average” American has descended from being a proud, free being to a willing ward of the state. Anything for safety and “not having to worry about anything”.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Ben Franklin
Steyn, always good, ripped it out of the ballpark with this column.