Dear Ms. Young, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy092401.html
September 24, 2001 Civil liberties may take a hit By Cathy Young
It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes; perhaps there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks.
Please speak for yourself. As a student and friend of liberty, I am a libertarian ESPECIALLY in times of stress, when the befogged and weak are tempted to surrender their freedom.
Even in the Declaration of Independence, the right to liberty is preceded by the right to life.
The two are not separable - the latter is in fact a corollary of the former - so the order in which they are stated is irrelevant. Human life, as opposed to the organic existence of cattle in a feedlot, implies liberty. Best, Marc de Piolenc