R. Quenett wrote:
mutilated misquotes
from Michael Hipp's 27 Sep 2005 classic prose
may follow:
" Correct. Any time the government begins these kind of "preemptive"
" actions, it can only go down hill. It may all be benign for now, but the
" time will come when the power will be abused. It is one-hundred-percent
bzzztt! ...extremely inappropriate use of future tense... <g>
" guaranteed.
" I'm all for controlling our borders, but harassing visitors who have a
" legal right to come here accomplishes nothing.
" No offense intended. This is a touchy subject. With few easy answers.
I find the answer very easy: you pay your own bills and I will pay
my own bills - very generally interpreted and very broadly applied.
To those who would say that there are practical difficulties with liberty,
my response would be to parrot, not unthinkingly, the following two
quotes, both attributed to Thomas Jefferson:
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
and
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of
liberty."
R
If I may add one more, well known, from B. Franklin:
"Those who sacrifice essential liberty for supposed security, deserve
neither security nor liberty."
I would stipulate, without proof, that the security measures that are
visible as a result of 9/11 are an infringement of essential liberty and
provide no more than supposed security.
-- Alma
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