by Don Newman

Hawaii Reporter

01/05/05

It is a very simple question: What is more important to you, freedom or security? Benjamin Franklin answered this centuries ago: 'Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.' Yet this is precisely what we, as a nation, are facing today. In the name of security we are giving up freedom after freedom after freedom. It is as if this president, and the party he hails from, had never heard of Benjamin Franklin; or the wisdom that that Founder expressed...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp