Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.
Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.
Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
You gotta do what you gotta do to win, so I don't really get to play around as much.
