Credit: FBI“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, writes Sheldon Richman. But the
increased calls for government surveillance after the Boston
Marathon attacks suggests we should not count on it. As Richman
notes, we must be ever vigilant against the predictable efforts of
politicians to exploit the attack in order to aggrandize their own
power.

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