The Convenience of Liberal Opinion
Posted on June 19, 2008
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In America, liberals complain that civil liberties are being taken away in the name of security, using the oft cited Benjamin Franklin quote, “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Those same liberals, consistent as they always are on the issues, complain that the American involvement in Iraq causes greater security problems than they had under the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. The say the same generally of American presence in the Middle East.
So I guess for liberals, civil liberties are more important than security here in America, but elsewhere in the world, security is more important than civil liberties. How convenient that their very strong and very loud opinions would change so readily from one continental context to the next as long as it appears (on the surface) to suit their liberal, anti-American agendas.
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