Re: Eavesdropping Video Receives 5 Star Rating

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > You don't really believe they're interested in what you
> > have to say to your family do you? Com'on.
>
> I believe they're interested in anyone who openly opposes them.
>
> Following are quotes on the subject of freedom:
>
> They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve
> neither liberty or security -- Benjamin Franklin

It is very common that those on your side of the fence to butcher what he
actually said

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety. "


> I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have
> invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I
believe
> that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is
> dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man
can
> flourish only in free air - that progress made under the shadow of the
> policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe
that
> any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to
become a
> tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the
> measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H. L. Mencken
>
> 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;
and
> may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams
>
> But no government has a licence to kill. The death of Menezes [Brazilian
> mistakenly shot by London police] is a victory for the terrorists. Success
in
> defeating terrorism requires us to be true to our values that they reject.
> Michael Ignatieff has argued for the lesser evil of curtailing liberties
and
> using violence in order to defeat the greater evil of terrorism. But we
must be
> careful not to succumb to the still greater evil of destroying the very
values
> for which democracies stand. The way to do this is to require of
governments
> that they justify all restrictive measures publicly, submit them to
judicial
> review and circumscribe them with sunset clauses to guard against the
temporary
> becoming permanent. -- Ramesh Thakur

Nice quotes, you still haven't answered his question