"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The National Security State Gives Us Neither Security Or Liberty
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2013-06-20 02:00
Benjamin Franklin’s often-cited axiom about balancing security and liberty, however, need not be a sacrifice of one or the other.
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