tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post3527502250552640721..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: We are All Sitting Ducks for TerroristsEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-2599880871838563302017-05-24T09:41:11.982-04:002017-05-24T09:41:11.982-04:00It is a slippery slope between security and civil ...It is a slippery slope between security and civil liberty. We could, theoretically, live in a terrorism-free world if we were willing to live in a police-state. Look at the Soviet Union. Crime rate was low, terrorism activity was virtually unheard of. Or look at China today. With their easiness to pass and execute capital punishment, it is no wonder that they can keep their country in order.<br /><br />Question to you, Mr. Berlach. You wrote, "At any rate western society is doomed to repeat this cycle of terrorism because we are not willing to sacrifice civil liberties in order to root out potential terrorists ... so we are all for liberty and civil rights and for personal freedom from surveillance, that is until a serious terrorist attack happens here."<br /><br />Are you willing to live under the oppression of security apparatus in a virtually crime-free society? Are you willing to abandon your lifestyle to guarantee your safety and security?<br /><br />Let me close my post with a quote from Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."Troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960771543572680283noreply@blogger.com