Will Bridges

Americans really need to open their eyes. Benjamin Franklin once said:
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
The best thing we could have done to show the terrorists that we stand united and America will not be budged by their actions is absolutely nothing. By taking away the liberties and freedoms we enjoy to increase our safety, we take away the protections that the founders of this country gave us when they founded this country. Those protections keep us from being ruled by tyrants and aristocrats. We should not erode those freedoms one bit. If we give an inch then we will give a foot and then we will give a yard. It’s only a matter of time. There are tyrants in this country that want to take away our rights to further exploit us for their will. We should be on the watch for things like allowing illegal wire tapping on citizens, being able to detain people without evidence of a crime, allowing toucher. These things are a prelude to the destruction of our essential liberties and not only that but they represent the fact that Americans no longer care about the world around them. Further Americans may have lost the fight that founded this country. Let’s hope the rest of us wake up before it’s too late.