People don't realize that stolen freedoms will stay stolen

posted 3 years ago by jabbawoke 3 years ago by jabbawoke +49 / -0

Even if the population get rid of this medical crisis, the freedoms won't come back for the most. That's why you hear about these protests worldwide.

Sleeping sheep will stay asleep if the government keep telling them "its for their greater good", "for security" , "for good wellbeing" etc. They will agree, because that will be always a good reason for them.

If it won't be enough they will prepare another false flags to justify stealing even more freedoms.

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– wtfppl 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Ben Franklin

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A tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar. And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War. And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto. Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it.

Think of kill all the lawyers - right? - from Shakespeare. Nobody really remembers what the characters in question were saying at that time. And maybe it doesn't matter so much what Franklin was actually trying to say because the quotation means so much to us in terms of the tension between government power and individual liberties. But I do think it is worth remembering what he was actually trying to say because the actual context is much more sensitive to the problems of real governance than the flip quotation's use is, often. And Franklin was dealing with a genuine security emergency. There were raids on these frontier towns. And he regarded the ability of a community to defend itself as the essential liberty that it would be contemptible to trade. So I don't really have a problem with people misusing the quotation, but I also think it's worth remembering what it was really about. -BENJAMIN WITTES

Similar to our Nation State Security that is only as useful when the focus of the government is used for its people.

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