Originally Posted by Bart
As one who has seen the real-world effects of tyranny and injustice and as one who has seen the faces of an oppressed people light up at the opportunity for freedom, I find a lot of these comments as nothing more than hyperbole.
What an interesting choice of words. Particlulary with reference to hyperbole.
Are you suggesting the time to defend liberty is only once a people are fully oppressed? How many cuts into the death of thousand cuts is one expected to endure before saying "ouch?"
Forward looking slipperly slope arguments are always dangerous and open to ridiculous conclusions, but that cuts both ways in the pro-liberty v. pro-security debate.
I love liberty a bit more than I love security. If that is the death of me, so be it, at least I lived free.