“One law. One people. This is basic to our system, and yet it has slipped away from us.”
It’s slipped away from us because too many people are so willing to trade liberty for security.
“It’s slipped away from us because too many people are so willing to trade liberty for security.”
What good is liberty if there is anarchy?
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I was reminded of the old Ben Franklin quote while recently watching the movie “Snowden”.
Snowden is controversial because he did expose classified data, and I think that this is generally a bad thing to do.
But Snowden wanted people to know that we had definitely traded our freedom in return for security. And we didn’t know we had made that bargain. No one told us. And perhaps we no longer deserved either freedom or security.
Certainly I feel less secure and less free as a result of the Patriot Act and so many other steps taken by our government. I think my government is out to get me.