[KirkandBurke]

Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither. - Benjamin Franklin

Necessity is the plea for every infringment of human liberty. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. - William Penn

"...this uniformly accepted rule rests upon the fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." [Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)]

Right~~Law and Order. Give me a break. Law and Order is for the benefit of govenment's power, not our protection.

[FreeTheHostages]

You're wrong about law and order. Law and order is for everyone's benefit. And in a democracy, we should right the laws. This us v. the government stuff is for kids. I'm not big on arguing through quotes. So here's one I made up: "We'll make ourselves the government, and the first civil liberty we establish is our liberty, thus achieved by discriminating/profiling very much against the British." Join the American experiment: democracy, we the people.