Source: Town Hall
by Ron Paul
“When I served in Congress, I was regularly lectured about how the people needed big government to keep them safe and secure, whether through welfare and regulations to ensure their economic security, the Patriot Act to protect their personal security, or forever wars to protect global security. Of course, the government’s track record regarding providing economic, personal, and global security proves that Ben Franklin was right, and my fellow representatives were wrong, about the dangers of trading liberty for security. The best example of this is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The TSA is very good at treating law-abiding airline passengers as criminal suspects, but not so good at catching real threats to passenger safety.” (03/11/25)