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Drawing the line between liberty and security
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"A trial has begun in Detroit that deserves more attention than it's getting, because it will help us define where we want to go as a country as we answer the question: How much of our liberty are we willing to give to feel more secure?"
"On trial for sedition and weapons charges are seven members of the Midwest militia group the Hutaree, based in southern Michigan, including Hoosier Thomas Piatek of Whiting."
"... The defendants are accused of conspiring to ambush and kill a police officer, then attack the funeral ... The defense says the group was just exercising its ... to free speech and ... right to bear arms. The anti-government talk was colorful but aimless bluster akin to frustrated pals drowning sorrows around a campfire." ... |
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After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. — Alexis de Tocqueville |
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