![]() That context would be a struggle between the Governor and the Assembly over how the additional funding for defensive measures would be paid for. To make his point in the referenced post, Wittes takes as the context of the quote the entire letter Franklin wrote (or co-wrote) to then Governor Morris of the Colony of Pennsylvania. Wittes is a leftist ideologue whose rabid ideology either blinds him to reasonable and logical interpretation or forces him to try to remake Franklin into the image of a very early spokesman for the Left. The very idea that the author of this article quotes, as a reliable source, Benjamin Wittes, a fellow of the very left-leaning Brookings Institute, shows that he is either a useful idiot or in league with Wittes’ likely intentional disinformation piece on Franklin’s famous quote. Securityĭavid Brick has a very nice, obvious rebuttal: How The World Actually Butchered Benjamin Franklin’s Quote On Liberty Vs. Slightly surprising (although not really), some right-leaning places bought it as factual.Įxcept it’s not. Unsurprisingly, a lot of leftist news sources and magazines followed suit and published similar articles. Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the editor of Lawfare, tells NPR’s Robert Siegel that it wasn’t originally meant to mean what people think. NPR has an article titled “Ben Franklin’s Famous ‘Liberty, Safety’ Quote Lost Its Context In 21st Century” also engulfs the internet with stupidity:īenjamin Franklin once said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” That quote often comes up in the context of new technology and concerns about government surveillance. One of America’s favorite liberal phrases has been sent through the political spin machine and polished into a Frankenstein of sorts, thus rendering it inaccurate and far from its original intention. Tech Crunch has a stupid article where they say that:
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