The Ultimate Big Brother comes to the UK

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755.—The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, vol. 6, p. 242 (1963).

This quotation, slightly altered, is inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

1) What about the freedom to be safe? If you are not safe are you truly free?
2) Being old does not make the written word true or closed to different interpretations. Take the bible for example.
3) How do cameras and speakers remove your freedom? You're still free do do whatever you damn well please. You may be more likelty to be caught if it's illegal, or feel more awkward doing whatever it is you want to do, but are the cameras themselves or their operators really at fault?