Sunday, February 10, 2013

America in the 21st century

Two quotes from a former Guantanamo prosecutor, Col. Morris Davis:
 
“We used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. Since 9/11, we’ve been the constrained and the cowardly.”

“If you went to the airport 15 years ago and somebody felt you up, it was called a sexual assault, not pre-boarding. From that, to the ‘kill list,’ to indefinite detention, liberty’s kind of gone by the wayside. Ben Franklin said, ‘Anyone who would trade their liberty for security deserves neither,’ and here we are now.”

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