[Think] scary quote from Ashcroft

[Fen Labalme]

        To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost
        liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid
        terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish
        our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and
        pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good
        will to remain silent in the face of evil.
                                -- Attorney General Ashcroft 12/6/01



Some quotes as rebuttal:


        Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little
        security deserve neither security nor liberty.
                                -- Benjamin Franklin


        I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too
        much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
                                -- Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart,
                                   1791. ME 8:276


        What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
        warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit
        of resistance.
                                -- Thomas Jefferson


        Dissent Is Not Un-American
                                -- on City Lights bookstore, see
                                http://pix.fen.net/20011214-Dissent/


For more quotes like these, see my collection at:
http://www.fen.net/quotes/


-- 
Fen Labalme
http://www.OpenPrivacy.org

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"
              - the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution