"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin

"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

How far we've come since those days. Right now, in the name of national security, we've stripped away civil rights here and there and with the renewal of the Patriot Act, the government can go through everything we own, we do etc. The only saving grace is the fact they've a few hundred million people to go through for everyone but they will eventually to get to everyone. I may be a little paranoid but keep in mind that sole purpose of government is to take away our rights.

If anyone follows a little philosophy (I'm certainly not so eloquent) of say Locke or even Jefferson, much of what they said was centered on the social contract theory. It said essentially, that all humans are created absolutely equally and that all people have exactly the same rights and we agree to give up some of those rights in order to exist in a civil society. Well, since giving up those rights in some people's eyes is inherently evil, you see the predicament. Thomas Paine felt that government was at it's best is a necessary evil, you see the problem.

Bush seems "hellbent" on making our government even more evil that it was before. I hope for the sake of our country that we survive to keep our rights intact. Then again most laws, under the Locke stuff are to protect property rights and the ones that rule have lots of "property" so I guess we're where we should be are?

posted by Stithmeister @ 9:52 PM
 
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