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MannyGoldstein

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2. "Make No Mistake: only by ending civil liberties can we save civil liberties"
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:04 PM
Aug 2012

"A once-great American, Benjamin Franklin, once said:

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Interesting words, to be sure, but in today's post-9/11 world, the American People understand that we can't take chances.

And Franklin was a Leftist like Krugman and Dean and that crowd - heck, he started the bureaucrat-run US Post Office! And bureaucrat-run public libraries! What's more looney-left than that!

Think of what would have happened if we'd followed Franklin's unrealistic ideas back in the late 18th century. A dreamer, yes, but not a realist."*


*For the sarcasm-challenged: this is not an actual quote. By anyone.

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