Interesting People mailing list archives
Walter Cronkite: The New Inquisition
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:58:43 -0400
The last sentence is right on. djf From: CMESSALL <CMESSALL () mykotronx com> Walter Cronkite: "...Unfortunately, security and liberty form a zero-sum equation. The inevitable trade-off: to increase security is to decrease liberty and vice versa. In the past, such trade-offs have been temporary - for the duration of the crisis of the moment. But today, we cannot see an end to the War on Terrorism, and that forces us to decide how secure we have to be and how free we want to be. Wow, have we already forgotten Ben Franklin's statement: "People who are willing to trade security for freedom soon find out that they have neither" ? In all fairness to Walter (who I would have thought, might have actually _heard_ Ben say those magic words ;-)), the trade-off might be correct at any given point in time, for the technology that applies at that instant. The secret of course is to change the rules (i.e., the technology) so thatwe can have more security AND retain our liberty. - Chuck Messall
------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
Current thread:
- Walter Cronkite: The New Inquisition Dave Farber (Oct 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Walter Cronkite: The New Inquisition Dave Farber (Oct 07)