Pathetic argument, by a pathetic man.
QUOTE(Benjamin Franklin)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Take his example before you praise Bush anymore.
The Patriot Act = The very thing Franklin is talking about.
ADDITION:
Here are some quotes from one of our Presidents:
QUOTE(John Adams)
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
John Adams
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams, Journal, 1772
Can you see, that EVERYTHING HE SAYS, goes AGAINST what our country is now?
I shouldn't be doing this because:
QUOTE
The blind follow ignorantly