John Cornyn: "Civil liberties don't matter much if you're dead"
The hill reports that Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has said:
“None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,”
I wonder if Senator Cornyn has considered what sort of country the United States would be if our Founding Fathers had taken that attitude.
As for me, no thanks. I refuse to see terrorists in every shadow and permit any abuse by the government to ward it off.
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who has led a bipartisan filibuster against a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, quoted Patrick Henry, an icon of the American Revolution, in response: “Give me liberty or give me death.”He called Cornyn’s comments “a retreat from who we are and who we should be.”
I'd tempted to say that Feingold really can turn a soundbite... but as the "-1" in the passing of the Patriot Act "99-1" originally in 2001, he probably deserves a bit more respect for his foresight.