"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
This blog is a response to the blog entitled "Fear and Distraction > Truth and Transparency" by a Texans Gov't blog. In short the post highlights a history in America of the government using a tragedy to push an agenda on to a sometimes eager population. Increasingly governments cite "national security" as reason to not tell its citizen what they deserve to know. Highlighted by the mention of the Stock Act, Patriot Act and Executive Order 9066 we should be warning ourselves about what Congress will attempt to pass to make us safer in their eyes in the wake of the Boston bombings. Just yesterday (5-10-13) I was watching C-SPAN and the House was having a hearing about national security in terms of the Boston bombings and in what ways they can be better prepared for this type of acts of terrorism. Repeatedly it was suggested that the FBI and Homeland Security should have done something or looked into one of the brothers for having visited his home country in 2011. This may sound harmless in the wake of the bombings but the government already listens to our phone calls, monitors our internet, and text messages. There will never be way to stop terrorism, it is not possible. The closest the government can come to stopping terrorism is by increasingly limiting the rights of people that live within its borders. Do we really need more laws after Boston? Is it not already illegal to kill people or to use bombs on people? This blog post has wonderfully illustrated the unfortunate history of a government that has enacted laws that were not successful and merely inconvenienced our citizen
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