The blog is Conservator and covers "Thoughts on libraries and freedom"
The post that caught my eye is this one:
THE MISSION PAGE FOR THE "LIBRARIANS AGAINST BUSH" seeks to ground the group's opposition to "legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act" in a quote from one of America's Founding Fathers:
For, as Benjamin Franklin said, "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
The only problem with this is that it looks as though Benjamin Franklin never actually wrote the latter phrase.
A phrase that Franklin demonstrably did write is:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Conservator has notified the "Librarians Against Bush" of this apparent error on their mission page, and herewith begins a Librarians Against Bush Correction Watch (day 0).
As with the several apocryphal Ashcroft insults, of course, the reader is encouraged to provide a full citation for the former quote, which will be promptly posted in this space, together with a retraction and an apology.Facts? We don't need no steenkin' facts...
