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The world after 9/11 has led many Western countries to rethink their security policies, but where does the limit lie between protecting citizens and eroding their civil liberties?

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Watchemoket
April 27, 2007, 4:58 p.m.
I can't seem to get past the first page of the article. Jovial, is there something required to get to the 2nd page?
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spkguy
April 27, 2007, 5:07 p.m.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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SCJDM
April 27, 2007, 6:10 p.m.
There is, at some point, a deminishing return on this. Since eventually someone will get through at some point and commit another act of terror here, will we then further erode our rights and freedoms? At what point have we gone too far?
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dunkirk
April 27, 2007, 6:32 p.m.
Give me Liberty or Give me Death
Patrick Henry
Doesn't equivocate there.
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kctrixter
April 28, 2007, 8:15 a.m.
Freedom can definitely be lost, but security can not be guaranteed, so to give up one for the promise of the other just seems ridiculous to me.
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DrWatson
April 28, 2007, 11:13 a.m.
People who seek security by sacrificing freedoms...deserve and end up with NEITHER!!!!
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Nowalive
April 29, 2007, 10:01 a.m.
I don't know about anyone else, but I haven't lost any civil liberties, or personal freedoms. No one that I know has lost anything. However, with that said, since safety can not be guaranteed 100% I believe the rush to over-legislate is the REAL problem.