Today's quotes... compare and contrast.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (USA Founding Father)

"Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms." -- John Reid (UK Home Secretary)


(second quote spotted in wechsler's journal)

Hehe...

Current Terror Alert Level


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(spotted in comments in deathboy's journal)

A False Sense of Insecurity

deathboy has reposted the whole of John Mueller's paper on LJ in HTML format (the original was PDF). Go here to read it:
http://deathboy.livejournal.com/882224.html

Speaking of contrast...

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