“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.”

—  Gerry Spence

Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 26 : Free at Last, p.331

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