Essential liberty

  Benjamin Franklin said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." write an initial 250-word post on the following: • Based on what Benjamin Franklin said, how is this relevant today? • What have you learned (including from the lesson readings) and thought about this in the course so far? • How can homeland security foundational legislation counter basic freedoms under the U.S. Constitution? • How do homeland security and emergency-related legislation try to balance the enabling of effective crisis response with the protection of civil rights and civil rights laws?