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Re: X-Ray Vans: What are your thoughts?
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Originally Posted by Aquila
The rights and liberts secured by our Founders in the Constitution were what they viewed as inalienable rights given by our creator. Certainly during the revolutionary war, and the subsequent conflicts, our Founders could have expressed that our liberties are predicated upon social conditions. However, they fought tooth and nail to preserve our liberties.
Sometimes the true COST of liberty is life or limb. We cheer our soldiers on as they go into battle to defend liberty. Yet like COWARDS we are willing to surrender the very liberties they are giving their lives to defend. Don't we realize... we too have a price to pay? Liberty isn't free. If I am killed in a terrorist attack (the odds are greater that I be hit by lightening) then I die a free man. However, if I surrender those liberties to gain a false sense of security, the would be attacker will still attack, and I'll die as a man in bondage.
Liberty is best defended by being exercised... not surrendered.
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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These are some great points, Aquila..
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