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Shahzad Faisal Proves We Are Still Asleep At The Wheel
by Tamara N. Holder Illinois

“When are we going to wake up and demand that our government protect us?”

“Instead, it is the job of our government to monitor people and gather intelligence so that the terrorist never even boards a plane.”

“American citizens have a duty to demand greater intelligence and more answers. As my mom always says, "You don't get unless you ask."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tamara-n-holder/shahzad-faisal-proves-we_b_562122.html

The quotes above from Ms Holder Illinois were in regards to the Times Square bomb attempt. The thing Ms HolderIllinois doesn’t seem to grasp is that she is asking Big Daddy Government to remove her liberties in order to make her safe.

When we demand that somebody else be responsible for us, we must sacrifice some privilege that goes along with the autonomy of being responsible for our own stuff. I’m not talking about waiting at the airport an extra hour so we can be carefully screened, I am talking about the right to privacy; not to be monitored and scrutinized by the thought police. Anybody read the prophetic novel, 1984?

Liberty costs us something. It’s dangerous, and it always has been. It’s why we’re allowed to bear arms, and why we are supposed to have checks and balances in our government, by the people and for the people. If we give up our liberties for freedom, then the terror really begins.

The Germans embraced Hitler because he put food on their bare tables. Initially they weren’t concerned with a few fringe, lunatic policies in order to bring Germany back to splendor. But once in power, guys like him start doing away with some dangerous practices, like free elections, for “the safety” of the people.

Ms Holder Illinois, didn’t your mom always say, “As long as you live in my house, you’ll live by my rules?”

“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. “
Thomas Jefferson