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Freedom should not be sacrificed for security
These are dangerous times. "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both" - Benjamin Franklin. ... As the government raced to shore up airline security and "root out evil" in Afghanistan, we pondered what would happen and would we be ready if terrorists or a hostile country used biological or nuclear weapons against us. ... If we arent careful, we may find ourselves trading our right to privacy and freedom of the press for illusory security in the form of new government regulations that, like all human security measures, may one day be used against "We the people. ...
According to USA TODAY January 22, 2002, government officials at the Justice Department and General Services Administration have said they are working on a nationally standardized identification system that may take the form of a government-issued security card with features such as a photograph, social security number, retina scan, fingerprint and DNA record. ... Or, would the government contract the job out to private companies like they did the airline security checkpoint jobs before Sept.
Approximate Word count = 908
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