Sheldon Richman: Liberty, security and terrorism

  “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

  It would be nice if Benjamin Franklin’s famous aphorism were as widely believed as it is quoted. I doubt that Sen. Lindsey Graham and his ilk would express disagreement, but one cannot really embrace Franklin’s wisdom while also claiming that “the homeland is the battlefield.” (The very word homeland should make Americans queasy.)