Those Who Would Sacrifice Liberty for Security Deserve Neither - Thoughts
So I get this photo above in a myspace bulletin. Normally I only read bulletins if it is from a person I know well or if it has to do with Superman and Life Cereal. But somehow I ended up opening this bulletin that quite obviously featured no content regarding the Man of Steel or the cereal world’s most famous citizen.
The picture above features some folks standing with their backs to a public speaker. For those of you who might not know, that action is a symbol of formal disrespect to the speaker. I don’t know who started it or where it cam from, and I don’t care enough to research it’s roots, but it’s a way of telling the person on the stage that you think they suck.
Okay fine. People got their opinion. I don’t wanna focus on what particular event, group or speaker the photo depicts, but I did wanna comment on the banner the people-with-their-backs-facing-the-speaker are holding..
There is a quote painted on the banner that reads “Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.” This was apparently said by Benjamin Franklin. And no, I don’t care enough to verify that either.
Obviously, those people are trying to make a statement, but what exactly are they trying to say? By their sign of disrespect, and the holding of the banner, we can deduce/conclude that they in fact are in support of the statement. They agree with Ben Franklin. And apparently they don’t find the guy at the podium worthy of being listened to; he must be one of “those” about which Ben Franklin speaks. Okay fine. Let’s take it one step further and remove Ben Franklin from the scenario……..
They are basically saying to the media: Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. So that’s their opinion. And they think their opinion is worthy of being noticed in the media. Otherwise they would have held the banner to the speaker and not the cameras.
Before I can agree or disagree with their statement, I must ask a few questions….
~ Says Who?
~ What exactly is “liberty” and “security”?
~ And by what authority do they deem another human being “unworthy” of either of those above-mentioned concepts?
~ The statement implicity assumes that Liberty and Security are good concepts.
PS: I superficially agree with the Franklin statement, but I just like to be argumentative :)
There is no room for politically correctness. Ben Franklin says. I don’t think it can get any simpler than that. If you acually have to ask what liberty and security is, then i dont believe you have any right to even have a say in this argument. But, I will inform you. Liberty is freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control. Despotic means Tyrannical if ya weren’t sure. I am glad you agree with Frankin on that subject. The way security is defined in this specific quote is Security from the enemy, the enemy in which the citizens should worry about. the enemy that should not be acused without cause. I am not saying there was no cause. I believe if it happend the way it did there was cause, yet I believe our borders are where our soldiers should be. They should die on American Soil if any. But I cannot assume. I cannot point fingers at the enemy. The Feds have lyed lyed and lyed some more. Their actions make it appear as Us the people are the enemies. Not the Muslims. There are so many possibilites, so many lies, so many reasons a cannot trust the tyrannical Feds. All of these things settle in my mind leaving me in a trance, they leave me confused, paranoid, There is to much hypocrisy in the world man. It is much bigger then it appears. I have one more thing to say and that is that any uneducated person has no say. Do not try and include yourself in subjects that ya know nothin about. That is why i’m left saying what i’ve said.