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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)thing we have and should be protected fiercely. Without it, which is why IT rather 'the people' is what our elected officials swear to protect, we have no democracy. Yet our elected officials are telling us that we need to give up some of those constitutional rights in order to be safe.
Every elected official, every military recruit must take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution and yet, some of them seem to just take it without any intention of carrying out their promise.
Compare Obama's speech this week 'we cannot have 100% security without giving up some rights', to Ben Franklin who said the exact opposite. I'm with Franklin, anyone willing or advocating giving up any of our freedoms, even tiny ones, to feel safe, 'deserve neither freedom nor safety'.
How cowardly to even consider caving to fear so easily.