Security versus freedom--the either/or of the new millennium--yet the very question indicates a flawed sense of both terms. It sets them up as mutually exclusive when, in fact, they go hand in hand, for can one truly be secure if one is not free? We make such a swap only when we define security as safety from certain things, not considering that by doing so, we make ourselves not only less free, but insecure …showed first 75 words of 1484 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1484 total…ms sales? Should there be no disclosure required before we are urged to give up our Constitutionally designated freedoms? Bottom line: How much freedom should we trade for security? is a simplistic question. Freedom is what America is all about. Give it up for any reason, and terrorism has won. Anyone who asks Americans to do so is in complicity. One thing they didn't stress in school that they should have: Remaining free requires courage.