Exactly: Arabs or Muslims did not blow up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. (as far as we know).
>>> And, no one panicked then and wanted to trash all of our freedoms and privacy rights... and hand all power over to faceless federal bureaucrats... so why go over-board and panic now?
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"The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Justice Brandeis 1928
Ben Franklin said something that was often repeated during the American Revolutionary War: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." It is no less true today.
"Timid men... prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous seas of liberty." Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction." Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams: ‘The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men .´
Patrick Henry spoke these famous prophetic words, as much to us today as to his fellow patriots in 1775: ‘Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!´
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." Edmund Burke
Madison, James: "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad...."
Madison, James: "...of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches...." |
