That's a quote from Pundette's post on the story out of Britain, "Fire kills child, 3, and parents as police prevent neighbours from trying to rescue them," and the reponses from Jay Nordlinger and Mark Steyn.
Check the links (Davey Davis says, "We were willing to risk our lives to save those kiddies but the police wouldn’t let us"), but here's this from Steyn:
New Hampshire's great motto, "Live free or die," is not just a bit of bloodcurdling stemwinding but a real choice that Britons, Canadians and, alas, Americans ought to ponder: You can live as free men, with all the rights and responsibilities and vicissitudes of fate that that entails. Or you can watch your society decay and die before your eyes — as England, once the crucible of freedom, dies a little with every day.I hope folks have also read Steyn's recent magisterial essay, "Prime Minister Obama: Will European Statism Supplant the American Way?"
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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And we are but one step behind the Brits.
-Dave