"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Bears repeating. You beat me to the quote.
A basic question is why was 9-11 used as an excuse to install ever encroaching surveillance and abrogations of freedom in place of securing our borders and halting the flood of entrants, illegal and legal, from countries that hate us?
Why have the political elite foisted 'Free Trade' agreements that contain provisions the over ride immigration law upon us?
Why haven't those responsible for immigration been given the tools needed for timely accurate evaluation of visa applications?
Why since 9-11 has our country been flooded with potential terrorists.
“Why....?”
“The first great American Civil War was about ending slavery. Civil War II is about the same thing, except the slave owners in this case are the bureaucrat and entitlement classes who have yoked productive citizens and future generations to a grindstone of $100 trillion of unfunded social liabilities, environmental Gaia worship and bureaucratic strangulation.”
http://www.futurnamics.com/civilwar.php