William Cohen just spoke on CNN via telephone and said some scary things

CNN ^ | breaking

[Politico2]

>Franklin's aphorism is as good today as it was when first written, and I paraphrase, "Those who are willing to sacrifice a bit of liberty for a bit of security -- are worthy of neither."

The achille's heel of your argument is your paraphrase -- what you selectively left out. The full quote is: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."

The key phrase here is "ESSENTIAL liberty." What part of Cohen's description are you considering "essential liberty"?

[PooperScooper]

You heard it Gracey. Those fools put her in office and they put Clinton in office and they did their damndest to put Gore in office. It is not just politics it is has to do with Christian principles and the lifestyle of a lazy criminally inclined majority. Most of em could rot in hell for all I care. I don't like em and never did from the time they poluted my fishing waters in South Jersey to the time where they and California forced their will on the rest of America and put the treasonist in office for eight years. I certainly wouldn't do to anyone what Bin Laden did but if it were to happen to anyone in this country I'm glad it was them.