Patriot Act and Patriot Patrick Henry
In the article, Senate Approves Curbs on Some Patriot Act Powers, The New York Times reports:
If Mr. Feingold spoke for the bill’s critics, Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, offered another perspective in support of the antiterrorism measure: “Civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead.”
Had he been around in 1775, I guess that Senator Bunning wouldn’t have agreed with patriot Patrick Henry’s, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death,” speech either.
