We have reposed the Constitution into the hands of those who have subverted it.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”Benjamin Franklin’s famous one-liner about the relationship between liberty and safety has intrigued me since I first read it in high school. Why would anyone sacrifice personal liberty? And how does that sacrifice equate to temporary safety?
Franklin was on the side of secession, and his one-liner was meant to embarrass folks into supporting his view. The king’s government officials argued that in return for their subjugation — they used the euphemism “loyalty” — the colonists would be kept safe. Safe from the agitators among them — like Franklin.
From George III and his Stamp Act of 1765, which resulted in British agents searching colonial homes without individualized suspicion, to George W. Bush and his Patriot Act of 2001, which enabled one federal agent to authorize another to search without any warrants in defiance of the Constitution, tyrants have consistently claimed “safety” as the excuse and purported benefit of trampling liberty.We all lived through the government theft of liberty three years ago, during the Covid scare.
It was against this caving into government’s seduction, induced by fear, that Franklin and Jefferson warned. Fortunately, their warnings were heeded. Even though the Revolutionary War was supported by a minority, it did rid America of a tyrant — until we elected our own.
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