phobizone

••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

liberty or security? where do you come down?

washington journal's question to viewers this morning came from a variation on ben franklin's famous statement on liberty versus safety:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

i'm pretty sure the majority of callers said they don't want to give up liberty to make it easier for the government to protect them, but quite a few said security trumps everything else.

none seemed fully aware they disagreed with franklin.
Posted by d nova at 1/25/2006 04:48:00 PM

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