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The Implications of Forfeiting Our Freedoms Today
by
Richard Ebeling,
December 2001
We are witnessing in America today the consequences from a weakened
appreciation of the purposes and importance of this constitutional order
under the emotional shock of a terrible and evil act on September 11, 2001.
Our fear and anger is clouding our reason, a reason that should guide us to
first think whether the individual costs in lost freedom and personal
privacy will have seemed worth it when our minds will have calmed and we
look back on the actions of the government today from the perspective of a
few years from now. If we do not try now to think about the implications
of forfeiting our freedoms today, when we do look back at these events in
the future we may only then realize we have lost something very precious
that may be very difficult to regain.
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