TRT Patriot BUMP!
Posted on 09/13/2001 9:59:33 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:31:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
When things went wrong in ancient times, our pagan ancestors tried to appease the gods by destroying that which they held dearest, hoping that their sacrifice would purchase their safety.
In modern times, we sometimes resort to the same practice -- though what we are asked to place on the altar is not a goat, or even a child, but our freedom.
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TRT Patriot BUMP!
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. -- Somerset Maugham
Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -- Thomas Paine
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. -- Joseph Sobran
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison
The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals...It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. -- Albert Gallatin (1789)
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!”
 Alexander Hamilton ++ “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
 Benjamin Franklin ++ “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!”—Patrick Henry”
Think about these sayings as you "give up" your liberties to get on an airplane.
I'll second that.
Unfortunately, it's the thoughts of the people in Washington that carry more weight on this subject, and that is not encouraging at all.
The terrorists have taken our freedom.
Freedom isn't a building or an airplane. It can't be destroyed by bombs or bullets. It's an idea that exists in the minds and hearts of men.
A hundred or even a million terrorists cannot take our freedom. We have to give it to them. When we become scared by their attacks and decide that we'd rather be safe than free, then and only then can our freedom be lost.
People need to understand the goal of terrorism. It isn't to destroy buildings or airplanes or even to kill people. Those are just a means to an end. The goal is to change the way people think and behave. In the coming days you will hear lots of people want to trade our freedom for safety. Don't think for a moment that those smart enough to pull this off hadn't predicted that. In fact, they're counting on it. Don't enable them.
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