libertIes for security is framed as a partisan issue? Who benefits if the issue of trading liberty for security is framed as a partisan issue? People on both sides of the political aisle Indepependents like me believe in Ben Franklin's non-partisan Admonition to all Americans."Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer; published "Poor Richard's Almanack" 1732-1757; founder & *1st president of American Philosophical Society 1769-1790*http://www.quotationspage.com/author.php...Franklinjp energy comment valuably adds to my Q but it does not A the Q.