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(14,173 posts)Benjamin Franklins quote of Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve neither liberty nor security is not right because he wrote it down, its right because its right.
It is sad to see even some on DU accept the slow deterioration into a Fascist state. One right at a time is stripped, like degrees of heat for the frog in a pot of hot water.
Would we all be safer in our cities if there were a nightly curfew of say 10 pm? And have soldiers on every street corner with machine guns enforcing it with a shoot-first policy? Probably and it would also get rid of that unsightly homeless problem. For now we live in a society were you can choose to go into shady areas to maybe go to a club. And you may be robbed on your way home. That's the price we pay. We take that chance.
We also live in a world where terrorists are going to strike at times. In fact they have for centuries now. And they will always find a way. Its a matter of deciding if you want to live in a freer more open society but riskier, or a militarized society where you are relatively safe and secure but have no privacy or freedom of speech or movement. I choose the former.