Snowden foes say NSA leaks endanger troops, help terrorists

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

-James Madison

So the loss of liberty at home is the result of the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Of course.

 

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During the American Civil War, President Lincoln ordered the suspension of habeas corpus. This measure was taken to allow the federal government to arrest people suspected to be Confederate sympathizers without trial or even a warrant.

Good point. Furthermore: During WWII we had small quasi prison camps for Japanese Americans.
In the Civil War three generals unlawfully declared Martial law in three different regions. They had no permission from the President, and what they did was NOT supposed to happen. The generals were Fremont, Ewing, and Hunter. Fremont and Ewing (infamous Order #11) were the scourge of Missouri. Hunter inflicted Martial Law somewhere in the extreme SE Lower 48.

 

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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson