After writing yesterday about the Senate's six-month extension of the PATRIOT Act, I learned that the House had passed an alternative one-month extension, to which the Senate agreed. [Read story.]
Hopefully during that month they will be able to effectively rework the Act to reduce the threats to our civil liberties.
They would do well to keep in mind the words of Benjamin Franklin, who said: "He who gives up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety."
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