Human Events
by Roger Hedgecock
01/27/2012
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety,” said Benjamin Franklin in 1759.
Liberals everywhere were in full-throat roar protesting George Bush’s Patriot Act and his War on Terror in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11. What price in liberty to be safe from terrorism? Barack Obama himself decried the loss of liberty, the loss of personal freedoms, declaring in 2005 that the Patriot Act “puts our own Justice Department above the law.”
Today only crickets from the Left as Obama assaults liberty and freedom of choice on a nearly daily basis.
Consider the list of Obama’s assaults on liberty. Any one of these done by a Republican President would bring down the wrath of the Left. Done by Obama, the action is noted in the Obama reelect media for a single news cycle and then dropped
Obama’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is more arrogantly intrusive than ever. The Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable” searches and seizures has been repealed at your local airport. Rep. John Mica, who authored the TSA legislation, observes that the unionized TSA now strip-searching grannies and detaining Senators bears little resemblance to his original idea. Read MORE>>