Airport officials Thursday said Middle Eastern-looking travelers would face no special scrutiny as jetliners resumed flights for the first time since this week's deadly hijackings linked to Islamic radicals.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Spero said. "As a Jew, I appreciate the fact that this is a country of liberty. But I think human life is more important than liberty.''
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
--- Daniel Webster
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin, 1759 (Franklin B. Historical Review of Pennsylvania. 1759)
If, in this context, human life is more important than liberty, then what's the point of fighting the terrorists? They've already taken that part of us that so infuriated them that they had to fling planes at us.
If we truly feel that life is more important than liberty -- than one of the core concepts of this country -- then they've already won.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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