MI5 vs. Benjamin Franklin

When we look back in American History, we find a whole bunch of really smart, very intuitive individuals. These men, our Founding Fathers, had a good understanding of Human Nature. They created the Constitution after long debate, and added the Bill of Rights after to keep the balance (the balance between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists).
I love many of the quotes from our Founding Fathers...these men had lived through the tyranny of the Kings of England, and had lived in the Freedom offered in the Americas. When they chose to adopt themselves a New Country and become a UNION of FREE STATES, there was a reason to their madness.
One of the quotes, from Benjamin Franklin, describes Human Nature. When you hear, "somebody ought to do something" or "there ought to be a law"... that "somebody" should be YOU and that law should be proposed by YOU. This is YOUR Government, after all.
Benjamin Franklin said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
This is why we have the Second, Third, Fourth, Nineth, and Tenth Amendments...to provide for our protection: our personal protection, the protection of our homes and families, protection of our cities and states, protection from the Government...

When we give up these LIBERTIES, and ask someone else to provide for us, we deserve neither LIBERTY nor SAFETY.

Now, contrast that with what is going on in our country right now...and what is going on back in England...

MI5 head warns on civil liberties

Civil liberties may have to be "eroded" to protect Britons from terrorism, the head of security service MI5 has said.

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