Thread: British Law?

Originally Posted by gugi

the vast majority of people when push comes to shove do prefer safety to liberty, in my view that's just a fact of life.

I think this here is where we find where the root cause of the disagreement is and where common ground is lost.

To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson (edit, really Benjamin Franklin, see next post), those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. For many Americans, that's a truism. It's why so many Americans have a problem with the so-called Patriot Act. It's why so many Americans believe in the right of self-defense. This is why you see Americans afraid of big government telling the individual what he can and cannot do in the name of public safety.

I, for one, subscribe to this particular belief.