Recently, Matt Barrow posted:

"Skywise" wrote in message
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"bill hunter" wrote in
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Snipola of excellent piece of sarcasm

As Benjamin Franklin said...

"He that would give up essential liberty for a little
security deserve neither liberty nor security."

(Or something close to that.)

He also said, in the same paragraph, "The only way to preserve
liberty is to never be secure.", (meaning: complacent. just as the US
was pre 9/11.)

I disagree with your interpretation that "never be secure" means
"complacent". It could be just the opposite, to mean "responsibly
vigilant", or "know what's going on around you". It's not necessary to
impose on our freedoms to achieve this state of mind.

Neil