The price of freedom

Another fine one by Pitts:

Freedom is worth security risks - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com: "No one denies a need to take every reasonable precaution for security. But we need to get over the idea we can guarantee we are never hit again. You simply cannot make that promise and have left a country worth living in. Or as President Eisenhower reputedly said, ``If you want total security, go to prison.''

Some of us would prefer not to. Some of us realize that a degree of risk is inextricable from any degree of freedom."