On Dec. 6, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft informed the Senate Judiciary Committee, “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty … your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and … give ammunition to America’s enemies.”
To which Benjamin Franklin would reply, “those who give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither and will lose both,”
I don’t follow your point.
I’m not all that keen on Ashcroft’s point there, if that’s what you’re getting at.