Liberty and Safety

[Kevin_Kennedy]

For a professor of law at one of the country's best law schools who was once the go-to guy in the Justice Department whenever the Bush White House needed legal cover for its truly lawless ventures outside the Constitution, John Yoo has revealed a breathtaking ignorance of American values, history, and jurisprudence.

In his startling mea culpa, published in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Professor Yoo confessed to advising President Bush that he possessed powers from some source other than the Constitution, that in the name of public safety he could cut down all laws written for the express purpose of restraining the President, and that Americans would expect no less than this so long as they were actually kept safe as a result of it.

Liberty and Safety by Andrew P. Napolitano

 

[Citizen]

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty not safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

 

[sparky]

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty not safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

which is exactly what we have........