This is the personal blog of Ian Ker, who was Councillor for the South Ward of the Town of Vincent from 1995 to 2009. I have been a resident of this area since 1985. This blog was originally conceived as a way of letting residents of Vincent know what I have been doing and sharing thoughts on important issues. I can now use it to sound off about things that concern me.

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Friday, August 8, 2014

Those who surrender democracy for the quiet life will not have, nor do they deserve, either one

Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, once stated that: "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

 In the context of the current debacle that the WA Government erroneously calls 'local government reform' (albeit only for the metropolitan proletariat - the rural peasants will get theirs later), I beg to restate Franklin's observation as:

 Those who surrender democracy for the quiet life will not have, nor do they deserve, either one
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