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Attacking the Patriot Act
ACLU launches multimillion-dollar campaign
A year after the controversial legislation was passed, the ACLU has launched a multimillion-dollar campaign against the Patriot act, dubbed "Keep America Safe and Free". The ACLU has filed twenty four lawsuits for civil liberties violations since Sept. 11th, some of which are outlined in this Wired news article. "The Bush administration has presented Americans with a false dichotomy that we must choose between being safe or free," says one ACLU spokesman, "We're saying there doesn't have to be a choice. We can stay safe and free at the same time."

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Benjamin Franklin wrote, "They that can give up Essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." You get neither because, "power corrupts an absolute power corrupts absolutely." To give up any of your liberties or freedoms for security, or safety, means to give someone else, or the collective, or law enforcement, or Government, or all of the above, power over you and others, that power can be corrupted and used against you, and you can lose your safety, your security and your Freedom.