As we approach the Presidential election, there is little doubt that the current financial crisis is the most important topic. In all of the discussions, however, the impositions of the state, in the name of "security", are being neglected by the candidates.
Freedom must take priority over even the economy. If the candidates are serious about leading - as opposed to just getting elected - they should discuss their approaches to balancing the inherent, and unresolvable, conflicts between security and freedom.
These words spoken by Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, should be in the forefront of our minds:
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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